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AMERICANISM OR THE MONEY HUNS 


CHAPTER I. 

Americanism, the symbol of justice and equality, po¬ 
litical and civil liberty, human happiness and progress, 
is destined to meet in a life or death struggle with that 
force and power called the Money Huns of the World. 

Americanism is not a phantom dream. It is not an 
accident. It is a living principle functioning in a crit¬ 
ical age of human progress. It is in the infinite plan of 
creation. It is the hope of destiny, the cry of humanity, 
and the demand of duty. 

It is that irresistible and unconquerable movement 
nursed and fed by a thousand generations of pain, suf¬ 
fering, sacrifice and death, tested by ages of fire and 
blood, for a higher and better order and a more equal 
and just economic and industrial freedom. 

The Money Hiuns of the World is not a new force. 
Down through the ages it has been the one great, greedy, 
bloodsucking parasite, the one black plague of destruc¬ 
tion, the one evil genius and blighting agency. A force 
conceived in greed and avarice, born of crime and op¬ 
pression and existing* in agep, upon the life-blood of 
struggling humanity. 

This force now at the height of its power openly chal¬ 
lenges the doctrine of Americanism to deadly combat. 

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Destiny has selected America as the field of struggle 
between these forces. 

From this battle there is no retreat. The challenge 
has been issued and accepted. The armies are ready. 
The trenches are dug and the entanglements constructed. 
The great guns are in place. The orders are ready. 

In this fight there will be no quarter. Either Amer¬ 
icanism will triumph or the Money Huns will conquer. 

Let us bring to every home the far-reaching conse¬ 
quences of this mighty struggle and arouse the manhood 
and the womanhood of the whole country to action. 

Let us smother our prejudices and set the sapping 
politician aside. Let us live for the good of humanity 
and the emancipation of the race. 

Let us lift the curtain of human activities and calmly 
look upon the great battlefield of life. 

In 1914 there broke over Europe the most destructive 
war of all time. The mind of man was exhausted in 
devising death-dealing engines, which were used with 
all the force and power capable of being developed by 
man. 

Let us here repaint a picture of the fields of France 
and Belgium. 

“Over there” the crimson-stained soil has been sancti¬ 
fied by a baptism of human blood. The temples of holy 
worship and the sanctuaries of refuge were desecrated 
and laid waste. The fertile fields have been devastated. 
The feasts have b£§i turned into mourning. Ruin and 
destruction shock and sicken the soul. Wild, savage and 
blood-curdling crimes are rewarded by the wicked Mo¬ 
loch of the age. 


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“Over there” the flower of a peace-loving and God¬ 
fearing people are fighting, fighting, fighting. Fighting 
that a blood-lust race shall not pass. Fighting that the 
pain, suffering and sacrifices of the countless ages gone 
shall not have been in vain, that the descendants of 
Washington and Lincoln shall not be humbled and bro¬ 
ken by the descendants of Attila the Hun. Fighting to 
keep the covenant with our Fathers; to keep burning 
the light of liberty; to guard our heritage, protect our 
homes and earn the respect and admiration of the com¬ 
ing generations. Fighting to preserve the hallowed asso¬ 
ciations that cluster about the unconquered and uncon¬ 
querable flag of the free. Fighting to keep a brutal force 
from our bridal chambers, to keep the Zeppelins from 
murdering our innocent children, helpless women and 
defenseless civilians, to keep the black pirate submarines 
from taking their toll of death in our harbors and along 
our coasts. Fighting for the emancipation of the human 
race. 

“Over there” they are dying, dying, dying. Making 
the supreme sacrifice. Giving their souls back to God, 
their hearts to their country and their bodies to the earth. 
Dying with a prayer of hope and inspiration on their 
lips. Dying that right may rule and that you and I may 
live. Dying that free men and free institutions shall not 
be wiped from the earth. Dying that the world may be 
saved for humanity and democracy. Dying that Chris¬ 
tianity and freedom shall not be crushed by the doctrine 
of force and oppression. Dying that the world may have 
a new birth of freedom, giving to all mankind the hopes, 

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ideals and blessings designed in the great infinite plan 
of creation. 

“Over there” into that seething, burning, blistering 
and torturing hell marched the flower of the manhood 
of America, mating the stars and stripes with the tri¬ 
color of immortal France, unfurling its protecting folds 
in solemn salute to the heroism and undying glory of 
bleeding Belgium; spreading before the breeze with the 
Union Jack of Great Britain; mingling with the emblem 
of sunny, indomitable Italy; standing attention with Ser- 
via and Roumania and returning with one more achieve¬ 
ment credited to the world’s greatest Republic. 

“Over there,” away from their homes, country and 
loved ones, in a strange land among strange peoples, 
sleeping their eternal sleep in bloody graves, lie our im¬ 
mortal heroes who died to make this a better world in 
which to live. 

With this picture before us let us paint another pic¬ 
ture representing the scenes of activity over here. 

“Over here,” in millions of homes patriotic citizens 
kept the home fires burning, while millions of anxious 
mothers prayed for their absent boys, and when the sad 
news came a mother’s great soul was filled with a holy 
and solemn pride in his sacrifice. 

“Over here,” millions of patriotic citizens humbly and 
patiently toiled, saved and sacrificed, denying themselves 
food and clothing so as to give their sustenance to our 
armies. 

Even the little urchins saved their pennies and the 
widow gave her mite for the cause “over there.” 

In the midst of this momentous struggle when the 
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life of our great Government was in the balance, when 
humanity and democracy were struggling with the beast 
of autocracy, when our brave soldiers were pouring out 
their life-blood upon the battlefields of France and per¬ 
forming deeds of deathless heroism, when the boys from 
the field, factory, store and office were winning imper¬ 
ishable glory for Americanism, what were the MONEY 
HUNS “over here” doing? 

They were organizing and reorganizing. They were 
collecting the plunder fund, wrung from the hearts of 
bleeding nations and peoples. They were welding to¬ 
gether a colossal combination of wealth and credit with 
which to strangle free government and make slaves of 
free people. They were building an industrial machine 
with which to conquer the world. And worst of all, 
they were building and organizing to use the returned 
soldier in their raid upon civilization and humanity. And 
so it is that the Money Huns are ready for the battle 
with Americanism. 

While the average American citizen was making every 
possible sacrifice to back up the Government in the tre¬ 
mendous task which the war imposed these financial 
ghouls, with fiendish glee, coined fortunes out of the 
misery of the people. They were not patriots. They 
were not even fit to be called American citizens. In the 
final analysis they were simply traitors and criminals. 
Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold are a credit to these 
men, who were so sordid and mercenary that they were 
willing to coin their country’s honor and misfortune into 
filthy lucre. 

I appreciate the coldness of figures, but here I want to 
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bring to you the magnitude of the far-reaching force and 
the undreamed of power of organized capital. The fig¬ 
ures I present here are beyond human conception, but I 
ask you to study them:. 

In 1853 there was brought into existence a mutual or¬ 
ganization called the New York Clearing House, com¬ 
posed of fifty-two members, since reduced to fifty. The 
ostensible purpose of this organization was to create 
within the United States a more perfect banking system. 
But its real object, as since developed, was to control 
the money of the country through the medium of the 
banks, and in this they are absolutely supreme. So well 
did they succeed that in 1913, 180 men held 385 direc¬ 
torships in forty-one banks and trust companies having 
total resources of $3,832,000,000 and total deposits of 
$2,834,000,000; 50 directorships in 11 insurance com¬ 
panies having total assets of $2,646,000,000; 155 direc¬ 
torships in 31 railroad systems having a total capitaliza¬ 
tion of $12,193,000,000 and a total mileage of 163,200; 
six directorships in two express companies, and four di¬ 
rectorships in one steamship company having a combined 
capitalization! of $245,000,000 and a gross annual in¬ 
come of $97,000,000. 

These same men held 98 directorships in 28 producing 
and trading companies having a total capitalization of 
$3>583 >°°o,ooo and total gross annual earnings in excess 
or $1,145,000,000; 48 directorships in 19 public utility 
corporations having a total capitalization of $2,826,000,- 
000 and total gross annual earnings in excess of $470,- 
000,000. In all, these 180 men held 746 directorships in 
134 corporations having total resources or capitalization 

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of $25,325,000,000, and at the top of this financial heap 
there have been three supreme, overshadowing and di¬ 
recting forces in control of the financial policy of the 
United States, having under their immediate and actual 
control more than one-fifth of the total wealth of the 
nation. In 1800 the estimated wealth of the whole coun¬ 
try was between three and four billion dollars. Now 
the wealth of one man, John D. Rockefeller, exceeds a 
BILLION DOLLARS. 

It should be observed that the combination controlling 
the wealth of the country does not belong to any partic¬ 
ular political party. They respect neither flag nor coun¬ 
try, neither man nor religion. Their lives are devoted 
to devising and developing schemes of exploitation. 
Their chief ambition is to accumulate wealth, to acquire 
influence and power, and to retain them. 

They are a nest of wasps-—a swarm of vermin that 
have over crept the land. Like the frogs of Egypt they 
have gotten possession of our dwellings and we have 
scarce a room free from them. They sup in our cups; 
they dip in our dish; they sit by our fire. We find them 
in the dye vat, washbowl, and powdering tub. They 
share with the butler in his box. They will not bate us 
a pin. We may not buy our clothes without their broker¬ 
age. These are the leeches that have sucked the Common¬ 
wealth so hard that it is almost hectical. 

This gigantic plunder bund combination reorganized 
very shortly after the outbreak of the world war, and 
reorganized again very shortly after the United States 
was forced into the conflict. So that we have today, for 
the first time in the world’s history plunder organized 

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with plunder, with a fixed and determined plan and pro¬ 
gram for future operations. 

Space does not permit me to point out, or even at¬ 
tempt to point out the plundering and piratical course, 
the cruel and heartless manipulations, the black wicked 
greed and avarice of this gigantic force of evil and 
death. However, it will serve a good purpose to delve 
into the archives of antiquity and learn from whence 
comes this plague of mankind. 

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write 
grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy 
from Judgment, /and to take away the right from the poor of my 
people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the 
fatherlessl 


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CHAPTER II. 

THERE WAS WAR IN HEAVEN. 

“There was war in heaven, Miichael and his angels 
fought against the dragon.” 

The rule of the Almighty in heaven had been chal¬ 
lenged by the red dragon—greed, lust, avarice, selfish¬ 
ness and love of power. Michael had been delegated by 
God to overcome and destroy the power of this evil 
force. A furious battle was fought between the forces 
of Michael and his angels and the great dragon, result¬ 
ing in a glorious victory for the hosts of truth and jus¬ 
tice. Thereupon the Almighty pronounced his judgment 
that ended forever the presence of Satan in Heaven. 

The story of this battle, the casting of Satan out of 
Heaven, his sojourn in hell, his escape to the earth, is 
so well known to all that it will not be here repeated. 

By this simple story, so well authenticated, we are 
forcefully reminded that in every age, under every con¬ 
dition, in every land there has existed this red dragon 
of greed, lust, avarice, selfishness and love of power 
bringing to mankind crime, want, misery, suffering and 
woe and standing as the arch enemy of human freedom, 
justice, individual liberty and universal brotherhood. 

The world has witnessed three great transitional pe¬ 
riods, producing three great epochs. From the very 
earliest period of time mankind has progressed because 
of struggle, conflict and sacrifice. Indeed, from the 

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primitive man to the present day is the long distance of 
ages, yet every step of that long trail is marked by the 
blood of the men and women who have lived and strug¬ 
gled, suffered and died to make this a better world in 
which to live. And this, because at every inch on the 
road of progress, humanity and civilization have been 
compelled to meet and contest with the forces of the 
Money Huns. 

From the days of Michael to the coming of the Mas¬ 
ter, many, many battles were fought for the Glory of 
God and the rights of man. Time after time in this 
struggle the forces of evil have triumphed over the hosts 
of truth and righteousness, but in the last totaling, in 
the grand result truth and righteousness have pre¬ 
vailed and steady progress has been made. 

The fact is that the hosts of truth, righteousness, hu¬ 
man uplift, industrial freedom and individual liberty 
have reached their grandest and highest summits of 
progress and achievement at the very time the forces of 
evil seemed to be riding on the high tide of success. Let 
me in a brief manner illustrate: 

Rome was at the Zenith of her power and glory. She 
was a “world-wide confederation of aristocracies for the 
perpetuation of human servitude.” Caesar Augustus 
had decreed that the whole world should be taxed to 
maintain and perpetuate this mighty confederation. 
Rome that sat on her seven hills and from her throne of 
beauty ruled the world, whose rulers brought many 
captives whose ransom did her general coffers fill; 
Rome, the power of force that lived by the doctrine that 

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might is right, presented every evidence of being an 
irresistible power. 

The people of Rome had become hardened to the op¬ 
pression, butchery and debaucheries of Herod, Nero and 
the Caesars. The Roman system “bullied” the whole 
world. Here and there a few martyrs recorded their 
extreme sacrifice in defense of human progress. The 
doctrine of brute force seemed to be riding on the high 
tide of fixed establishment. 

Then there came out of Galilee a humble man, the son 
of a carpenter. He preached to the people in a very 
plain, but earnest manner. He taught a new doctrine. 
He challenged and condemned the doctrine of force. He 
defied the mighty Roman Empire and became the first 
great representative of the people. Armed in the holy 
cause of human justice, he aroused the “cowed” slaves 
of Roman servitude. The common people, the produc¬ 
ing class, the laboring man, the man with good thoughts 
in his heart, caught up the spirit and the followers of 
Jesus became a mighty host. At that time, under the 
Roman rule, Jesus found opposing Him the same force 
that has opposed and hindered the progress of truth in 
every age. The same force that rebelled against the rule 
of the Almighty in the days of Michael was there; the 
Pharisees and Scribes were there as they are here; the 
blood-lust and gluttonous greed with its never ending 
cry for more and more was there, as it is here; the in¬ 
visible government was there, as it is here; the system 
was there, as it is here. The plundering of the God- 
given resources was going on there, except to a greater 
degree, as it has been going on in the world ever since. 

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Hie found the temples and sanctuaries of holy worship 
turned into trading houses for the money changers; he 
found the Caste System, the Silversmiths, the Judases, 
the Scribes, the High Priests, the Profiteers, and he 
condemned them all. 

And so came to pass the first great epoch, the found¬ 
ing of the Christian religion, blessing humanity with new 
fruitage. And at this epoch we find the first great rep¬ 
resentative of the people. Michael made possible the es¬ 
tablishment of the Christian religion. Christ made pos¬ 
sible the founding of free government with the recog¬ 
nition of the principle that all men are created equal. 

For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by 
an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and associa¬ 
tion of latent causes, which have been long before predestinated. 


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CHAPTER III. 


THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE OF THE 
PEOPLE. 

The first representative of the people was the last of 
the world’s great teachers. This sentence is intended 
as a bold challenge. If it be correct it should arouse 
every right thinking person. If it be incorrect the truth 
should be forthcoming. Jesus was the first represent¬ 
ative of the people. His whole soul throbbed with the 
full rhythm of the laws of God and the rights of man. 
He lived and died for the good of mankind, not only 
the life in the hereafter, but here on the earth in this 
sphere of activity. He preached industrial freedom, in¬ 
dividual liberty, human brotherhood, economic activity 
and good will to man. He condemned the doctrine of 
force, challenged the laws of Rome, rebuked the Scribes 
and Pharisees, cursed the money changers and de¬ 
nounced hypocrisy. He was the first representative of 
the people and the last of the world’s great teachers. All 
agree that Jesus furnished the foundation and super¬ 
structure of the second great epoch, just as Michael gave 
the world the foundation for the great epoch that estab¬ 
lished the Christian religion. 

From the death of Christ by the law-enforcing depart¬ 
ment of the Roman Government down to the birth of the 
Declaration of Independence we find the evil forces 
heretofore referred to harassing the march of progress. 

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The same dragon that battled with Michael and cruci¬ 
fied Christ now vainly struggles to overthrow civiliza¬ 
tion, Christianity and human progress. 

In short, at this period of the world’s evolution we 
find strikingly similar conditions to those observed all 
along the road of progress, except that truth and right¬ 
eousness are gradually developing into a more potent 
force, the fruitage of which is daily bringing good re¬ 
sults. 

We finally reach the second great epoch in the march 
of world progress and that is the establishment of a 
Government of the people—giving the world the new 
doctrine that all men are created equal and that they 
are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable 
rights and among them are life, liberty and pursuit of 
happiness. 

A solemn period has now been reached. The dawn of 
a new epoch draws near. The shadows of darkness 
which had filled the sky of hope in the heavens of human 
freedom are being dissipated. A humble and Godfear¬ 
ing people have founded their homes on the bleak and 
barren shores of a strange continent. Here they plant 
the seed of hope, inspiration and determination and give 
to all mankind a new freedom and to destiny a new 
light. 

From the four corners of the earth people flock to 
this haven of refuge, this land of opportunity and indi¬ 
vidual liberty, until on our shores are found every type 
and mould of civilization, every nationality and all the 
bloods, lores, languages, religions and family ties which 
the history of mankind has listed. 

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In the main these people have been thrifty, energetic 
and industrious. Witness them building their homes, 
erecting their altars, constructing their firesides and 
sanctifying their family circles. Behold them felling the 
mighty forests, toiling and spinning with glad hearts 
and willing hands, leveling the giant and rugged moun¬ 
tains and building bands of steel into every nook and 
corner. They have subdued the rapids, harnessed the 
water powers, trapped the lightning, chained the tor¬ 
rents, spanned the rivers, joined the oceans and trans¬ 
formed the elements into things useful and beneficial to 
humanity. 

They have founded their villages in the wilderness 
and transformed them into great trade centers where 
countless industries sing the song of progress, making 
glad the hearts and happy the homes of countless mil¬ 
lions of toilers. 

Great institutions of research and learning, places of 
holy worship according to the dictates of the conscience 
of the worshiper have been erected and protected. 

The magnitude of the progress of our industrial and 
business institutions, wrought in about three-quarters of 
a century, challenges the admiration of the world. Our 
wealth accumulation has been the marvel of the age. 

Greed early had its grip upon the throat of this na¬ 
tion. Corporate control began to strangle our industries. 
Monopoly began to squeeze the great middle class, the 
producers and the laborer. American industry lost its 
freedom. The weak were crushed by the strong. Every¬ 
thing became commercialized. The great mill of selfish 
interests grinding on and on to produce wealth, power 

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and influence worked overtime. Crime came to the land 
of happiness, hunger and poverty to the land of plenty. 
Capital organized. Labor organized. 

The unseen hand of destiny after all made its appear¬ 
ance. Again, observe that the hosts of truth, righteous¬ 
ness, human uplift, industrial freedom and individual 
liberty have reached their grandest summits and achiev¬ 
ed their most splendid victories at the very time the 
forces of evil seem to be riding on the high tide of 
success. 

The world-wide conflict, in all its fury, with all its 
pent-up hell, in all its death and destructiveness, will 
bring about a complete change. Its end will be the ush¬ 
ering in of a new epoch, the third epoch in the evolu¬ 
tion of world events, THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN¬ 
ISM. 

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that 
the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many 
as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 

And he causeth all, both small and greats rich and poor, free 
and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their fore¬ 
heads. 

And that noj man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, 
or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the 
number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his num¬ 
ber is six hundred three-score and six.—Revelation: 13-18. 


And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their ar¬ 
mies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the 
horse, and against his army. 

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that 
wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had 
received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his 
image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with 
brimstone. 

And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat up¬ 
on the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth; and all the 
fowls were fillecf with their flesh.—Revelation: 19-21. 


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CHAPTER IV. 

THE WORLD WAR. 

The World War has not only demonstrated the abso¬ 
lute and crying necessity of, but has provided the wav 
for a full and complete readjustment and reorganization 
of our whole social, industrial and economic order. This 
change will involve a tremendous and exacting task. 

The producing classes are ready to put forth every 
effort to build up and develop the productive energies of 
the country to their highest point of productiveness. 

The great unorganized middle class, the stalwart citi¬ 
zenship of the nation, is demanding the elimination of 
all non-producing agencies. They demand a healthy and 
vigorous industrial system that will develop our indus¬ 
tries to the highest point of productiveness and our 
workmen to /the highest point of efficiency, and a social 
and economic order that will protect the producer and 
consumer alike and give to all a fair and just portion of 
the products of his or her toil. They demand the free¬ 
dom of enterprise, and the freedom of industry. They 
demand the free expression of progressive thought and 
action and an opportunity to give to mankind the best 
that is in them'. 

Interwoven into the whole fabric is that well-devel¬ 
oped thread of self-interest demanding special attention. 

In the arena of political activity the people are de¬ 
manding that the oft repeated axiom, “public office is a 

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public trust,” shall be resolved into the new and higher 
idea that a public trust conferred is the insignia of hu¬ 
man brotherhood, which no man should be permitted to 
wear who does not find his greatest gain and highest 
ambition realized in faithful work for others. 

Hovering over these forces of progress and product¬ 
iveness like vultures are the greedy pirates of industry 
that have ruled the industrial and economic life and dic¬ 
tated to the American people ever since the Civil War. 
These gamblers have levied an unholy tax upon every 
mouth full of food the people have consumed, every gar¬ 
ment they have worn, every convenience they have used, 
and every necessary bounty they have appropriated. They 
are beyond the reach of the law. Their bold manipula¬ 
tions gave us the radical agitators, upon whose activities 
lived a new form of parisites and public imposters. And 
so it came to pass that we witnessed, within our indus¬ 
trial economy two great, organized, evil forces existing 
to the great detriment of law, progress and order. 

As a very natural consequence much unrest, protest 
and bitter agitation filled the land. The publicist hurled 
his fund of knowledge and economic philosophy at the 
surging mass of struggling humanity; the revolutionist 
grabbed his chance and began to furnish new fuel to the 
blaze of public indignation and the whole country became 
filled with the rumblings of the coming economic and in¬ 
dustrial storm. Into this struggle was drawn every form 
of American life. This conflict disturbed the whole body 
politic, destroyed the harmony of our social life and at 
times threatened the very foundations of free govern¬ 
ment and free institutions. 


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Between these agitating, gambling and destructive 
forces, paying unwilling tribute to all, struggled the 
great unorganized middle class, the producer and the 
consumer, the class which at this time was unorganized. 

These and a host of other conditions combined into 
an industrial and social state which had become alarm¬ 
ing. 

Then came the World War and with it the opportu¬ 
nity for the MONEY HUNS. 

I have before me the Congressional Record dated July 
3, 1918, and I read: 

In support of the President's charge against the prof- ' 
iteers we now have the report of the Federal Trade Com¬ 
mission , dated June 29, 1918, zvhich is a shocking reve¬ 
lation of the avarice of the profiteers. The report covers 
in chief the great basic products of mining and industry, 
commodities upon which practically all other prices are 
based. I will not attempt more than a hasty analysis of 
the report. 

STEEL. 

The Steel Trust made 24.9 per cent in 191/ upon the 
total amount invested in its business as against 4.7 per 
cent in 1912, 5.7 per cent in 1913, and 2.8 per cent in 
1914. Even these enormous figures are small in compar¬ 
ison with the profits of Follansbee Bros. Co., 112.48 per 
cent; West Leechburg Steel Co., 109.03 per cent; West 
Penn. Steel Co., 159.01 per cent, and dwindle into mod¬ 
esty as compared zvith the profits of Nagle Steel Co., 
which reach the murderous figure of 319.67 per cent. 

COPPER, NICKEL AND ZINC. 

The average profits of 21 leading copper companies 
were found by the commission to average 24.4 per cent. 
Some of the concerns earned as high as 107 per cent on 

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their investments. These figures show profits left after 
paying all Federal taxes and show the net amounts ap¬ 
plied to dividends. 

The Nezu Jersey Zinc Co., which has a practical mo¬ 
nopoly of zinc production, shows 93.9 per cent profits. 

The International Nickel Co., which also has a monop¬ 
oly, made 30 per cent on its investment. 

SULPHUR. 

Two corporations, together enjoy a practical monopoly 
in sulphur production. They made for eleven months, 
ending October 31 last 236 per cent on their investments. 
It costs about $6 per ton to produce sulphur. These con¬ 
cerns charged from $18 to $33 per ton for their product. 

LUMBER. 

The lumber industry has been comparatively lenient. 
On an average the mills made net profits of 20 per cent 
during 1917, though some mills ran up to 121 per cent. 
The average for 1916 was 3.2 per cent. 

COAL. 

Coal producers seem to have been guilty of the most 
shameless profiteering of all, not that their profits were 
greater than other profiteers, but because they dealt in a 
necessary of life — coal—which must be used by rich and 
poor alike, so that much of their extortion zms practiced 
upon the poor and oppressed. The soft-coal producers of 
central Pennsylvania in 1916 made an average profit of 
only 20 cents per ton. In 1917 their profit was 90 cents 
per ton. Coal producers in the middle states made 34 
cents per ton profit as against 10 to 13 cents for the pre¬ 
war period. So that the commission's report shows that 
coal operators had increased their profits from 300 to 
300 per cent. The commission’s investigation did not 
extend to the Alabama fields, so that I have no accurate 
information as to the profits made. I do know that coal 

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which was sold f. o. h. mines at from 90 to $1.35 per ton 
in 1912, 1913 and 1914 was sold during 1913 at from 
$2.23 to $2.90 per ton after Government prices had been 
fixed, and that prior to price fixing the price in some 
cases reached $4 per ton. 

OIL AND GASOLINE. 

The war emergency has given a golden opportunity to 
Standard Oil and its subsidiaries. They have earned 
from 24 to 63 per cent upon their investments. 

MEAT AND LEATHER. 

The big packers have proven themselves the robbers 
that they were believed to be. The big four — Armour, 
Swift, Morris and Cudahy—had averaged prewar profits 
— 1912, 1913 and 1914—of $19,000,000; in 191} they 
earned $86,000,000. They did well in 1913 and 1916 
for their profits for the last three years have reached 
$142,000,000. Morris & Co. for 1917 earned 263.7 P er 
cent on capital stock. Armour in 1916 increased its cap¬ 
ital stock from $20,000,000 to $100,000,000, not a dollar 
of new money being paid for the new stock. 

The packers are also interested directly and indirectly 
in the hide and leather business. A tremendous advance 
in prices of leather was made in 1917 and enormous 
profits realized. The Eastern Leather Co., paid 33 per 
cent dividends on its common stock after transferring 10 
per cent to its surplus. The people paid this when they 
bought their shoes. 

FLOUR AND MILK. 

Flour millers increased their profits during 1917, 400 
per cent, but the increase was distributed so that only a 
little was paid by each individual. Millers had been con¬ 
tent with an average of 13 cents per barrel profit, but 
with the war they increased their average to 32 cents a 
barrel and paid profits of 38 per cent on their invest¬ 
ments. 

The canned milk business is monopolized by a few 

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concerns. One of these made 65 per cent on its invest¬ 
ments and the others something less. Even little babies 
depending for nourishment upon a can of condensed milk 
are required to yield something to the war profiteers. 

To demonstrate the world-wide activities and manip¬ 
ulations of this same power I quote the following from 
the Berlin Vorwaerts, for the month of July, 1918: 

“As for that we are all sinners. Profiteering exceeds 
all bounds. Usury is rampant among all classes. Fraud¬ 
ulent profiteering like that of Daimler works is in no 
wise an exception. Even official bodies attempt to ex¬ 
tort illegal profits. But poor folk can only buy clothes 
at the official clothing department by bribing the sales¬ 
men with tips or food” 

From Austria-Hungary comes the same warning. 

In August, 1918, the Associated Press brings news 
from Japan to this effect: 

At Nagoya, noted for its manufactures of porcelains, 
a mob estimated at 50,000 persons rioted. At several 
places the soldiers fired on the disturbers. 

At Kobe the soldiers and police also zvere obliged to 
use sabers and bayonets. 

There was serious rioting in Tokio Wednesday night. 
Mobs attacked and damaged property in the business and 
theatrical districts. 

The rioters also entered and pillaged houses in Asa 
Kusa, the great recreation resort of the middle and lower 
classes. A number of the disturbers were wounded by 
the police. 

The newspaper comment here seems to indicate that 
the food riots throughout the country are an expression 
of grozving social unrest among the people and to reflect 
the belief that the empire is advancing toward a social 
crisis.' The riots are spreading, invoking the poor and 
the middle classes. 


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It is remarked that the uprisings are often anti-capital¬ 
istic, mobs destroying property and voicing anger at evi¬ 
dences of luxury. Geisha girls have been stoned in the 
streets and the houses of the rich have been assailed. The 
war has increased the luxuries of the rich and the misery 
of the poor, as insufficient wages are paid. The riots are 
the first of the kind to occur since Japan was opened to 
western civilization. 

Disorders broke out in Tokio on Tuesday night. A 
crowd of 5000 which was prevented from congregating 
in the park marched to the Ginza, the great retail thor¬ 
oughfare of the city, where they stoned and damaged 
200 stores and restaurants, raided rice depots and unsuc¬ 
cessfully attacked the ministry of the interior. Ninety ar¬ 
rests were made and 20 policemen were injured. Tokio 
tonight is occupied by heavy detachments of police and 
infantry. The newspapers are forbidden to publish news 
of any kind relative to the rice riots. 

From faraway Cairo we read the challenge of the 
Egyptians “Long Live the nation,'” “Long live complete 
independence/’ “Egypt for Egyptians,” “Down with the 
oppressors,” “Long live Liberty,” in their public mass 
demonstrations against the English. Shall these warn¬ 
ings go unheeded? 

On July 3, 1918, the Federal Trade Commission re¬ 
porting to the President of the United States, says: 

It appears that five great packing concerns of the coun¬ 
try — Swift, Armour, Morris, Cudahy and Wilson—have 
attained such a dominant position that they control at will 
the market in which they buy their SUPPLIES, the 
market in which they SELL THEIR PRODUCTS, and 
hold the fortunes of their competitors in their hands. 

Not only is the business of gathering, preparing and 
selling meat products in their control, but an almost 
countless number of by-product industries are similarly 

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dominated; and, not content with reaching out for mas¬ 
tery as to commodities which substitute for meat and its 
by-products, they have invaded allied industries and even 
unrelated ones. 

And further in that report they say: 

The producer of live stock is at the mercy of these five 
companies, because they control the market and the mar¬ 
keting facilities, and to some extent the rolling stock 
which transports the product to market. 

The competitors of these five concerns are at their 
mercy because of the control of the market places, stor¬ 
age facilities, and the refrigerator cars for distribution. 

The consumer of meat products is at the mercy of 
these five because both producer and competitor are help¬ 
less to bring relief. 

In addition to meat foods, they produce or deal in such 
divers commodities as fresh tomatoes and banjo strings, 
leather and cotton seed oil, breakfast foods, vin fizz, 
curled hair, pepsin, and washing powders. Their branch 
houses are not only stations for the distribution of meat 
and poultry, but take on the character of wholesale gro¬ 
cery stores, dealers in various kinds of produce, and job¬ 
bers to special lines of trade. 

The packer has drawn to a marked degree upon the 
banks of the country for liquid funds—he could not op¬ 
erate on the scale he does without the very large loans 
furnished by the banks. To' assure himself loans ample 
to his purpose, the big packer has secured affiliation 
through stock ownership, representation on directorates, 
and in other ways with numerous banks and trust com¬ 
panies. Mr. Armour, Mr. Swift, Mr. Morris, and Mr. 
Wilson are directors in banks affiliated closely with those 
who are strong at the sources of credit in the United 
States. Being thus allied with the powerful interests at 
the sources of credit, the packers’ power is great, not 
only for -financing their own national and international 

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operations, but for effecting for good or for ill the credit 
of cattle producers and of competitors or customers in 
any line. 

And so it goes. They are in canned fruits, vegetables, 
groceries, 'wool, rice, banks, peddler car routes, refrig¬ 
erator transportation, control of stockyards, hides, leath¬ 
er, eggs, and poultry. In short this combination now 
has control of the food products of this country. 

The general plan contemplated by the money inter¬ 
ests, which will be discussed more in detail hereinafter, 
is a world-wide trustification of all of the means of pro¬ 
duction, communication and distribution. Commenting 
on this subject the Federal Trade Commission says: 

Out of the mass of information in our hands one fact 
stands out with all possible emphasis. The small domi¬ 
nant group of American meat packers are now interna- 
tional in their activities, while remaining American in 
identity. Blame which now attaches to them for their 
practices abroad as well as at home inevitably will attach 
to our country if the practices continue. The purely do¬ 
mestic problems in their increasing magnitude, their mo¬ 
nopolization of markets, their manipulations and control, 
grave as those problems are, are not more serious than 
those presented by the added aspect of international ac¬ 
tivity. 

The menace of this concentrated control of the nation's 
food, says the same report, is increased by the fact that 
these five corporations and their FIVE HUNDRED and 
odd subsidiary, controlled and affiliated companies are 
bound together by joint ownerships, agreements, under¬ 
standings, communities of interest and family relation¬ 
ships. 

The Armour, Swift, Morris and Wilson interests have 
entered into a combination with certain foreign corpora¬ 
tions by which export shipments of beef, mutton and oth¬ 
er meats from the principal South American meat-pro- 

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during countries are apportioned among the several com¬ 
panies on the basis of agreed percentages. In conjunc¬ 
tion with this conspiracy meetings are held for the pur¬ 
pose of securing the maintenance of the agreement and 
making such readjustments as from time to time may be 
desirable. THE AGREEMENTS RESTRICT SOUTH 
AMERICAN SHIPMENTS TO EUROPEAN 
COUNTRIES AND THE UNITED STATES. 

Since the meat supplies of North and South America 
constitute practically the only sources from which the 
United States and her allies can satisfy their needs for 
the armies, navies and civil populations, these two agree¬ 
ments constitute a conspiracy on the part of the big five, 
in conjunction with certain foreign corporations, to mo¬ 
nopolize an essential part of the food of the United 
States, England, France and Italy. 

To further illustrate let us take the coffee produc¬ 
tion. 

In the province of Sao Paulo, in the Republic of Bra¬ 
zil, is located the coffee production center of the world. 
In 1906 and 1907 this province produced approximately 
14,000,000 bags of coffee; in 1899 the world’s visible 
supply of coffee was approximately 6,000,000 bags, 
which was increased by January 1, 1912, to between 
13,000,000 and 14,000,000 bags. Notwithstanding this 
increase in production, the price steadily advanced from 
6V2 cents per pound in 1900 to 15% cents per pound in 
October, 1912. In 1905 ( the province of Sao Paulo en¬ 
acted a law authorizing the execution of an agreement 
between the Brazilian Government and other govern¬ 
ments of coffee producing provinces looking to the con¬ 
trol of the market and production of coffee. Shortly 
after the enactment of this law, a loan of $5,000,000 due 
in one year was negotiated. When this loan fell due a 
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new loan in the sum of $15,000,000 was negotiated by 
London and New York capitalists. Of this sum the 
London end of the syndicate advanced $10,000,000 and 
the New York end $5,000,000. The agreement reached 
was for the purpose of enabling the parties in interest 
to not only control the price of coffee, but to manipu¬ 
late and control the production. To this end the con¬ 
tract provided that not to exceed 500,000 bags of coffee 
each year should be turned over to the syndicate for the 
purpose of being stored. When the $15,000,000 loan be¬ 
came due, a valorization scheme was consummated and 
a new loan in the sum of $75,000,000 was made. Of 
this amount J. Pierpont Morgan & Company and the 
First National Bank of New York furnished $10,000,000 
while the London and Paris bankers furnished $65,000,- 
000. They took as security for this loan 7,000,000 bags 
of coffee; a guarantee from the government of Sao Pau¬ 
lo, and were further fortified by a guarantee from the 
federal government of Brazil. The contract provided 
that the exportation of coffee should not exceed 9,000,- 
000 bags the first year, 9,500,000 the second year, and 
10,000,000 bags the third year. They also retained their 
old provision for the purchase and storage, or destruc¬ 
tion of 500,000 bags of coffee per year. To further for¬ 
tify their position they secured the enactment of a law 
prohibiting the planting of any more coffee orchards 
during the life of the agreement. 

The coffee contracted for was under the scheme deliv¬ 
ered to a committee of seven members who had exclusive 
control under the terms of the contract. The contract 
further provided that the coffee should be taken to New 

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York, London and Paris and stored in warehouses, and 
that the sale should not exceed 500,000 bags for the first 
year, 600,000 bags for the second year, and so on until 
the entire amount had been disposed of. 

It was carefully provided for that the committee of 
seven members had authority ,to prohibit sales altogether 
if such course was necessary to> accomplish their pur- 
■ pose. This put a gang of gamblers in full and complete 
control of the coffee market of the world. 

Take as another example the petroleum production of 
the world. This gives a clear and vivid insight of the 
manipulations of the speculating interests to monopolize 
world production of every necessary and useful article 
produced. 

At the outbreak of the great world war three coun¬ 
tries, United States, Great Britain and Germany, were 
fighting for control of the field of production and mar¬ 
kets of distribution of petroleum products of the world. 
It was a world-wide gambling game. 

The Standard Oil Company had perfected its organi¬ 
zation and had secured a practical and working monop¬ 
oly of all petroleum products within the United States. 
This company with oil fields in Mexico, Russia, Ruma¬ 
nia and other parts of the world, began an international 
campaign to control the production and distribution of 
oil. 

The German government, by legislation and discrimi¬ 
nation, drove the Standard Oil people from its territory. 
Germany, with governmental aid, then began her inva¬ 
sion of foreign fields. Russia, the Balkans, Mexico, and 
Galacia were among her fields of operation. 

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In the meantime Great Britain had extended her activ¬ 
ities to foreign fields also, she had begun shutting for¬ 
eign competition from the British Isles, colonies and pro¬ 
tectorates. To illustrate: in British Honduras, “All 
mines of mineral oil are reserved to the crown.” In 
Transvaal “All minerals belong to the government and 
not to the owners of the surface of the land.” In India 
“American oil companies are expressly excluded from 
doing business in Burmah, and a blanket concession of 
99 years was given the Burmah Oil Co., Ltd., in 1889, 
protecting this company from all foreign competition.” 
None but British oil companies are operating in India. 
The ownership of ,oil properties in India is limited to 
British-born subjects. 

In Australia petroleum is and has been the prop¬ 
erty of the crown. In Persia the Anglo-Persian Oil 
Co., Ltd., a British government corporation, has a 
concession granted by the Persian government giv¬ 
ing it exclusive right to search for and deal with pe¬ 
troleum, asphalt, ozoketites, etc., throughout an area 
of some 500,000 square miles in the Persian Empire. 

Through the Royal-Dutch Shell, the British gov¬ 
ernment has been and is acquiring large holdings. 
This group represents purely British interests to about 
fifty per cent and its policy is more British than Dutch, 
in Dutch East Indies, South Russia, Roumania, Vene¬ 
zuela, Trinidad, Curacao, Egypt, Canada, Mexico and 
British West India. Great Britain had been showing 
a lively interest in securing a monopoly of petroleum 
through British Nationals in French West Africa, 
South Africa, Algeria, British West India, Canada, Cuba, 

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Cyprus, East Indies, Equador, Galicia, Turkey, Mor- 
roco, New Guinea, Tunis and Syria. Great Britain 
was also preparing to carry the fight to the door of 
the Standard Oil company in the United States through 
the Shell Company, which was affiliated with the Royal 
Dutch Shell combine and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. 
The very extensive and prolific oil fields in Mesopo¬ 
tamia had not been overlooked. A large amount of 
British capital had been invested in Mexico. 

This, very briefly and in a general way gives the 
reader an idea of the status of the petroleum fight at 
the outbreak of the world war. 

As the world war progressed Great Britain found it 
necessary to float a war loan in the United States. Mor¬ 
gan, the representative of English money in America, 
was selected to place this loan. At this time the Mor¬ 
gan group and the Standard Oil group represented' all 
of the “big money” in the United States. These two 
mighty groups were not antagonistic, in a direct sense 
of operation, but, at the same time, they did not rep¬ 
resent a united interest. 

The Standard Oil group, more powerful than the 
Morgan group, realizing their opportunity, refused to 
underwrite any part of the British war loan. The 
world soon learned the result, the loan lagged, the Mor¬ 
gan interests, the underwriters, were embarrassed. The 
propaganda of the Standard Oil group had done its 
work well. To save the day the British interests found 
it necessary to make terms with the Standard Oil group 
and the Standard Oil people named their own terms. 
In other words, the British interests, with their world- 

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wide combination, were compelled to divide the oil 
world with the Standard Oil Company, which they did. 

The thing that forced the British interests to bow 
on bended knees before the Baal of Standard Oil was 
the threat to deprive England of its Gold reserve, 
which the Standard Oil people could have brought 
about. 

And so it came to pass that two groups of gamblers 
now dominate and control the petroleum products of 
the world, and those two groups are: 

The Standard Oil group, and the Royal Dutch-Shell 
and the Anglo-Persian-Burmah-United British West 
Indies Petroleum Syndicate group. 

Great Britain has attempted to protect her inter¬ 
ests. 

By creating a permanent governmental petroleum 
department with powers and duties as follows : (a) To 
act as an advision in petroleum matters to all other 
branches of His Majesty’s Government; (b) to grant 
concessions for all oil development within the British 
Empire; and (c) to advise and assist British oil com¬ 
panies in securing concessions, carrying on work, and 
conducting trade in other countries. 

By debarring foreigners and foreign nationals from 
owning or operating oil-producing properties in the 
British Isles, colonies, and protectorates. 

Prospecting for petroleum or working a petroleum 
property is lawful in the United Kingdom only for the 
board of trade or minister of munitions or person or 
persons authorized by them. 

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By direct participation in ownership and control of 
petroleum; companies. 

By refusing permission to British oil companies to 
sell their properties to foreign-owned or controlled com¬ 
panies. 

By orders in council that prohibit the transfer of 
shares in British oil companies to others than British sub¬ 
jects or nationals. 

The Mexican Eagle interests in Mexico were pur¬ 
chased by the Dutch-Shell group, and the United States, 
Great Britain and France immediately became inter¬ 
ested in the welfare of Mexico. 

If time permitted I should like here to give the world 
a history of how our great institutions were thrown 
into the mighty smelter of international organization. 
The United States Steel Corporation, with its great ore 
deposits, with its own coal fields, its natural gas fields, 
its lime stone quarries, with fleets of vessels which ply 
upon the Great Lakes, with its thousands of miles of 
railroads, with its millions upon millions of profits 
bowed in solemn obedience to the international plan 
proposed by the world trust builders. So, too, with a 
hundred and one trusts in America, they joined in 
the great march of world trustification of the means 
of production, transportation and distribution. And so 
it came to pass that the Money Huns of the World 
had scored their greatest and most far-reaching vic¬ 
tory. 

And they shall build houses, and\,inhabit them; and they shall 
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, 
and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat; for as 
the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall 
long enjoy the work'of their hands. 

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CHAPTER V. 

THE CALL OF THE MONEY HUNS. 


During the World War and long prior to the sign¬ 
ing of the armistice the gamblers of finance and world 
trading agreed that the time had come when London, 
as the trade center and clearing house of the world 
must be abandoned. These pirates of industry appre¬ 
ciated only too well that the war had completely 
changed the whole world. They were far sighted 
enough to move before the ship sank. It hardly is 
necessary to remind the reader that ^England’s chief in¬ 
dustry, ever since the Lombards brought their gold 
from Antwerp, has been loaning money, collecting in¬ 
terests and exploiting small states and nations. 

At the outbreak of the World War, English capital 
was invested in every part of the globe. Her loans 
and investments made London the trade center and 
clearing house for world trade, banking and commerce. 

The advent of the submarine and the aeroplane 
marked a new era for the British Isles. 

For more than two years before the signing of the 
armistice experts on world trade and commerce were 
searching the seven seas for a safe place from which 
to carry on their manipulations. New York was finally 
determined upon and selected. A number of things 
entered into and influenced this change, among them 
the following: 


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The war debt and its influence on world trade and 
commerce. 

The bankrupt condition of all of the countries of Eu¬ 
rope which had taken part in the war. 

Americas position in world politics and world trading 
resulting from her participation in the war. 

Industrial and trade conditicms on the continent of Eu¬ 
rope. 

The futility of any attempt to maintain England as a 
creditor nation. 

The shifting of the balance of world power from Eu¬ 
rope to America. 

The wealth producing resources and splendid field of 
exploitation. 

Britain's inability to protect and collect the investments 
of its people without the help of the United States. 

Our geographical position which will enable us to pro¬ 
tect the North American continent against the coming 
combination between Germany , Russia and China. 

The opportunity to perfect a world-wide trustification 
scheme which was in the process of formation at the out¬ 
break of the war. 

New York, these experts pointed out, should by all 
rules of trade be the world’s great clearing house and 
the world’s trade center. The natural resources, wealth 
and unbounded productiveness of the country are, they 
reasoned, sufficient to make the United States invin¬ 
cible against any attack. Again, they reasoned, in the 
eyes of the world the United States is the great beacon 
light nation of equality, justice and progress. 

New York with all her advantages and possibilities 
was not free from faults. It was pointed out that in 
the United States there was an alarming amount of 
unrest and agitation among her laboring and produc¬ 
ing classes. Also there seemed to be too much lib- 

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erty allowed in criticism of “Big Business.” There¬ 
fore it was agreed that the following program should 
be carried out: 

A pooling agreement of certain international invest- 
ments, representing French, English and the United 
States capital, was agreed upon. 

The private securities loaned to the British Govern- 
ment by English citizens and placed by that government 
with certain banks and banking houses in the United 
States, as collateral to war loans, are to be protected. 

All railroads in the United States must be returned to 
private ownership, where they should remain. 

A world-wide co-operation of capital with the idea of 
perfecting a world-wide trustification scheme of the 
means of production, transportation and distribution. 

Stringent criminal laws affecting the activities of all 
radical orders and organizations were to be enacted. 

The Industrial Workers of the World, a militant labor 
organization, is to be silenced and the Non-partisan 
League, an organization of farmers, is to be suppressed. 

Every effort is to be made to have the United States 
underwrite a part of the war debt and steady the finance 
of Europe. 

Certain trade laws affecting the importation of goods, 
wares and merchandise are to be passed. 

The returned American soldier was to be organized 
into a safe and sane organization and all orders and or¬ 
ganizations for returned soldiers, except those agreed 
upon, are to be discouraged. 

The so-called “Red wave ” is to be crushed without 
quarter. 

The United States navy is to be increased. 

The United States army is to be reorganized. 

Certain parts of Northern Mexico are to be brought 
under the jurisdiction of the United States. 

These “Big Business Reforms” are to be carried into 
effect as rapidly as conditions permit. 

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The whole plan of carrying out this program has been 
agreed upon. 

In this connection, a number of self-styled patriotic or¬ 
ganizations have been brought into existence. 

Among these is the National Security League of New 
York. 

This corporation, like the hirelings of the Silver 
Smiths of old, will direct the publicity campaign for 
the special privilege interests and spread their propa¬ 
ganda. It .is planned to have this organization carry 
its propaganda into every state in the union. Indeed 
the first steps have already been taken. A number of 
the state organizers have been selected and named. 
These state organizers' represent “big business” in their 
respective states. The state organizer is, in a general 
way, the directing head for the state. There is also 
named, under the state organizer, a county organizer, 
whose jurisdiction and activities are limited to a sin¬ 
gle county. 

It is interesting to know here just who the National 
Security League of New York is and what it repre¬ 
sents. Of this corporation I quote the following from 
the Congressional Record of December 4, 1918: 

That said League is a powerful, irresponsible New 
York corporation, arrogant and un-American in its meth¬ 
ods, a slanderous libel on the patriotism of our public 
officials and our citizenship, inimical to the best interests 
of the country, and has done more to create public dis¬ 
cord and unwarranted suspicions and a division among a 
patriotic people than any other single agency. 

It is well known, of course, that originally this League 
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was financed by the plundering profiteers of New York. 
This is the character of the combination which has 
been selected to teach die Americans the principles of 
true patriotism and good citizenship. 

A large number of Chambers of Commerce and Com¬ 
mercial Clubs, and Employers’ Associations have been 
“signed up” and are assisting in spreading the “big 
business” literature. Public meetings are planned in 
all parts of the United States under the auspices of 
the National Security League. 

Banks and banking houses in the combination are 
to take their suggestions from the New York Clear¬ 
ing House. 

The entire war organization, in so far as possible 
is to be utilized, under the false pretense that the work 
proposed is of a patriotic nature and for the purpose 
of building up a better citizenship and overcoming the 
so-called red wave of Bolshevism. 

A speaker’s bureau will be maintained and editorial 
news and cartoon publicity service will be supplied 
newspapers. Special attention will be given to 
“boiler plate matter” for the weekly press throughout 
the country. Syndicate writers furnishing special ar¬ 
ticles for the great daily press are to be censored. In¬ 
dependent newspapers are to be suppressed whenever 
possible. All radical literature is to be boycotted and 
persons printing, or handling the same are to be treated 
likewise. 

The “horrors” of the red wave of Russia, the spread 
of the “terrible” plague called Bolshevism, the “bloody” 
terrorism of the Industrial Workers of the World, the 

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“un-Americanism” of the farmer organization and the 
plots of the “undesirables” real, or created for a pur¬ 
pose, will be kept constantly before the reading public 
and every person disagreeing with the harmony of “big 
business” will be branded as unpatriotic, un-American 
and undesirable. 

This campaign of “big business” education will be 
paid for by the Money Huns and their agents for the 
purpose of making the United States safe for the Shy- 
locks of the world. It involves the political, industrial 
and civil liberty of the people of the whole world. It 
is the most far reaching and dangerous effort ever 
attempted. If carried into operation it will establish 
an industrial Kaiserdom which will be infinitely worse 
than the military Kaiserdom, which has just been 
overthrown, at a cost to the Allies of more than seven 
million men killed, over twenty million men crippled, 
over one hundred and ninety billions of dollars spent, 
to say nothing of the billions of dollars worth of 
private property destroyed and the untold miseries, 
agonies and suffering brought upon millions of in¬ 
nocent people. The world paid dearly for democracy, 
political and civil liberty, and it is the solemn and 
sacred duty of every man, woman and child to protect 
and honor that democracy and that political and civil 
liberty. 

Why, it may be asked, have the Shylocks of the 
world chosen New York as their rendezvous and 
adopted the plan and program suggested? One word 
answers this question and that word is “self-preserva¬ 
tion.” 


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Follow the long, cruel and heartless manipulations 
of the money changers of the world from the building 
of the Roman Empire to the ending of the world war 
and your vision will be clear. Stop at Belshazzar’s 
feast; talk with the Merchants of Venice; travel with 
the plundering Spaniards; go into the trading cen¬ 
ters with the money changers of Rome; listen to Isaiah 
and Tacitus, Justinian, Solon and King Solomon; talk 
again with Jesus; call upon William the Conqueror and 
Alfred the Great and you will learn much of the red 
trail of greed, lust, avarice, wars, vice, brutality, blazed 
by the plundering Shylocks of the world. 

Do not forget that the money changers of Berlin, 
Vienna and Constantinople are working in harmony with 
the money changers of London, Paris, New York, Tokio 
and Petrograd. They are all very much interested in 
protecting the great war debt, amounting to over 
two hundred billion dollars. This tremendous burden 
on the backs of the productive forces is to be made 
a useful weapon in the hands of the shylocks in their 
future plans. 

We have been frankly told that we are our brothers’ 
keepers, therefore we should pool our “resources” with 
Europe’s “debts,” so that the money changers can ma¬ 
nipulate and use both. 

In this connection we again observe that die Allies 
paid over seven million men killed, over twenty mil¬ 
lion men crippled, over one hundred and ninety billions 
dollars, saw their towns and lands devastated and for 
four long, weary years braved the agonies of war 
to keep a military autocracy from ruling the world. 

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Now we are met with the stern realization that upon 
these sacrifices the money changers propose to build 
their castles of autocracy and world control. In other 
words, while the Prussian Huns were losing on the 
battlefields, the Money Huns were winning the world 
on the industrial fields and now actually have, because 
of sacrifices so made, almost accomplished their pur¬ 
pose. 

Do you realize that the cost of the war is greater 
than the combined national wealth of Great. Britain 
and Ireland, France, Russia and Italy? In other words, 
the entire national wealth of Great Britain and Ireland, 
France, Russia and Italy is less than the cost of the 
war. This debt under the control of any combination 
will rule the world and wipe out every vestige of civil, 
political, industrial and religious liberty. And so it has 
come to pass that the fertile fields of the earth, the gen¬ 
erous and hard working people of the land, together 
with the productive energies of the world are to be ex¬ 
ploited to protect the war debt and collect the war in¬ 
terest. 

Europe is bankrupt and its people nursing an ugly 
mood. They are still dazed from the effect of the 
awful nightmare through which they have just passed. 
Hence the Money Huns, the black, blighting curse of 
all ages, have decided to visit our land and homes with 
their pestilence and oppression. 

The pirates of industry of Wall Street will welcome 
them with open arms and their agents and hirelings will 
joyfully and triumphantly announce the glad tidings 

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from the house tops. We have more Benedict Arnolds 
in the United States than ever before. 

Thousands of new millionaires since the beginning 
of the world war tells history in a line and sounds a 
most solemn warning. Eight thousand new millionaires 
made in the year of 1918. “Those familiar with Athe¬ 
nian history would doubtless say here, “Give us a 
Solon.” 

The mortgage stones that covered her, by me removed, 
The land that was a slave is free. 

The debts created by the world war can never be 
paid. The producer is destined to carry that mighty 
burden to a point when he shall lay it down or be 
crushed under its weight. I do not expect to see the 
producer crushed. I realize, of course, the division 
of opinion among our people and realize how anxious 
a certain class is to serve the moneyed interests. I 
also realize that a people divided among themselves 
cannot long endure. The principle of Americansim, the 
hope of human brotherhood, freedom, political and civil 
liberty must and will die if our land is ruled by the 
Money Huns. I do not think Americanism will die, 
because it is a great living principle functioning in the 
most critical period of human progress. Political and 
civil liberty survived the chariot wheels of the pagan 
warriors, the battleaxe of the Romans and the Medo 
Persians, the inquisition of the cruel Spaniards, the 
burning fagots of the blood thirsting Turk, the cannons 
of Great Britain, the sword of the Mohammedan, the 
tomahawk of the Indians and the Zeppelins and sub¬ 
marines of the Huns. 


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In short political, civil and religious liberty have 
survived every force attempting their destruction since 
the beginning of time, because they are a part of the 
great infinite plan of human progress. 

Indeed, from the primitive man to the present day 
is a long distance of ages, yet every step of that long, 
long trail is marked by the blood of the men and the 
women who have lived and struggled, bled and died 
to make this a better world in which to live. I do not 
believe that political and civil liberty can or will be 
crushed by the Money Huns, but I do know that they 
face a life or death struggle. In this struggle we are 
to decide the fate of the peoples of the world for the 
next hundred years. 

We dare not refuse to act promptly and effectively. 
To neglect the infamous triumphs of those who prey 
on the people’s needs means to shake the pillars of this 
Republic to their wreck. Let America perpetuate this 
hideous exploitation of her workers while parasites and 
drones flourish on the manipulation of a nation’s bread, 
and we will face a more dangerous foe than the Im¬ 
perial German Government. 

Iniquity, committed in this world, produces not fruit Immedi¬ 
ately, but, like the earth, in due season, and advancing by little 
and little, it eradicates the man who committed it. 

He grows rich for a while through unrighteousness; then he 
beholds good things; then it is that he vanquishes his foes; but he 
perishes at length from his whole root upwards. 

Justice, being destroyed, will destroy; being preserved, will pre¬ 
serve; /It must never therefore be violated. Beware, O judge, lest 
Justice, being overturned, overturn both us and thyself. 


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CHAPTER VI. 

DOOM OF WORLD AUTOCRACY. 

The complete destruction of Prussian Military Au¬ 
tocracy of Germany should have been a solemn warn¬ 
ing to the financial autocracy of America. The 
financial autocracy of America will not attempt to read 
the hand writing on the wall of progress. This power 
has learned nothing from the fall of the Bastile or the 
French Revolution, nothing from the decline of Rome, 
the crumbling of Greece, the abdication of the mighty 
Czar of all the Russians or the crushing of the great 
German scheme of world power. Neither reason, or 
justice, or equality is to be found in their language. 

Therefore, nothing short of complete annihilation of 
the power of the financial autocracy of America will 
be a safe road to travel. 

The financial autocracy of America, like its twin evil, 
the military autocracy of Germany, has no creed except 
the brutal and crushing doctrine of force and deception. 
They firmly believe that this doctrine will triumph over 
the doctrine of human brotherhood and equal rights. 
Therein lies the grave danger for all, because this at¬ 
titude will force the fight. In this struggle there will 
be no middle ground. The issue will be squarely drawn. 
There can be no compromise. Either the Money Huns 
must be destroyed or the march of political and civil 
liberty will be checked. 


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The first representative of the people, the humble 
man from Galilee, pointed out that “Every Kingdom 
divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every 
city or house divided against itself shall not stand.” The 
Immortal Lincoln pointed out that a nation half free 
and half slave could not long endure. The principle 
of Americanism cannot long live in a land ruled by the 
Money Huns. One must of necessity survive and the 
other perish. 

In 1913, President Wilson, in his book, “The New 
Freedom,” said: 

American industry is not free, as once it was free; 
American enterprise is not free; the man with only a lit¬ 
tle capital is finding it harder to get into the held, more 
and more impossible to compete with the big fellow■. 
Why? Because the laws of this country do not prevent 
the strong from crushing the weak. That is the reason, 
and because the strong have crushed the weak the strong 
dominate the industry and the economic life of this 
country. 

And again: 

I should like to take a census of the business men —7 
mean the rank and hie of the business men—as to wheth¬ 
er they think that business conditions in this country, or 
rather whether the organization of business in this coun¬ 
try, is satisfactory or not. I KNOW WHAT THEY 
WOULD SAY IF THEY DARED. If they could vote 
secretly they would vote overwhelmingly that the present 
organization of business was meant for the big fellows; 
and was not meant for the little fellows; that it was 
meant for those who are at the top and was meant 
to exclude those who are at the bottom; that it 
was meant to shut out beginners, to prevent new entries 
in the race, to prevent the building up of competitive en- 

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terprises that would interfere with the monopolies which 
the great trusts have built up.” 

The reason President Wilson could so readily un¬ 
derstand the German Imperial Government, penetrate 
the innermost secrets of its power, lay bare its cunning 
manipulations, expose to the world its duplicity and 
cold-blooded deception, was he understood the mechan¬ 
ism, organization and business principles of Big Busi¬ 
ness of America. 

He had come in contact with the ramifications and 
experienced the power and influence of the great spec¬ 
ulators and financiers. He had seen them rule, learned 
their ideals, and observed their method of doing busi¬ 
ness. 

Brute force and deception were the chief pillars of 
both the German Government and the big American 
corporations. Might is right, is their constant though". 
Crush everything that stands in the road of progress, 
is their first principle. 

With searching accuracy Wilson points out the effect 
of Big Business control upon our social life: “Let me 
illustrate what I mean: It used to be true in our cities 
that every family occupied a separate house of its own, 
that every family had its own premises, that every 
family was separated in its life from every other fam¬ 
ily. That is no longer the case in our great cities. Fam¬ 
ilies live in tenements, they live in flats, they live on 
floors; they are piled layer upon layer in the great 
tenement houses of our crowded districts, and not only 
are they piled layer upon layer, but they are associated 

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room by room, so that there is in every room, some ¬ 
times, in our congested districts a separate family.” 

And this in a country which the all-wise Creator 
endowed and blessed with an endless abundance of 
natural resources, untold riches and boundless wealth. 
A land of mighty forests, great rivers and crystal lakes. 
A land where the mountains, pregnant with enchanting, 
mystifying and fascinating scenery, filled with water¬ 
falls playing with the fairies of rest, recreation and in¬ 
spiration, lift their peaks high into the heavens. A 
land where the bowels of the earth are filled with gold, 
copper, silver, and other precious metals. A land where 
the far-reaching rich plains and fertile prairies feast 
with the music of the sower and the song of the reaper, 
where the streams and bays, lakes and harbors swarm 
with a thousand varieties of the finny tribe. A land 
rich beyond measure, bountiful beyond all dreams and 
beautiful beyond description. A land where the air 
is pure, the birds sing and the flowers bloom, where 
the sunshine and the rain play with each other. A 
land where the all-wise Creator has built for mankind 
a haven of rest for the weary, a land of hope and 
promise for his children and blessed it in the name of 
life, liberty, equality and justice. 

Here we have a people representing the perfection of 
thrift, energy and industry, felling the great forests, 
building their homes, constructing their firesides and 
sanctifying their family circles. Toiling and spinning 
with glad hearts and willing hands ; subduing the rapids, 
harnessing the waterpowers, chaining the torrents, span¬ 
ning the rivers, conquering nature and transforming 

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the elements into things useful and beneficial to hu¬ 
manity and posterity; a good people with high and 
noble aspirations. 

Yet, withal, “American industry is not free,” the 
“middle class is being more and more squeezed out by 
the processes which we have been taught to call pro¬ 
cess of prosperity” and “families live in tenements, they 
live in flats, they live on floors; they are piled layer 
upon layer in the great tenement houses of our crowded 
districts, and not only are they piled layer upon layer, but 
they are associated room by room, so that there is in every 
room sometimes, in our congested districts, a separate 
family.” 

How does this big business control affect our people 
from a physical and moral standpoint? Let us take 
the lesson taught by the draft of the late war. 

From one-third to one-half of our drafted men were 
unfit for soldiers. Thirty per cent were rejected by 
their draft boards as physically unfit. 

Gen. Leonard Wood, writing in Modern Medicine, 
says: 

Flat chests, spinal curvatures and deformities, flat feet, 
wretched muscular development, defective teeth, slow 
co-ordination of mind and muscle were common. And 
this among the yo per cent who were sent to us as pre¬ 
sumably fit for service. What the condition of the re¬ 
maining 30 per cent was can readily be imagined. 

Again, many men were exempted as obviously physi¬ 
cally unfit, and were not brought before the boards for 
physical examination. It is safe to say that 50 per cent 
of our men were unfit for field-service in war. This is 
bad enough from the military standpoint, but it is even 

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more serious from the standpoint of industrial efficiency. 
And again: 

Certainly these facts indicate very clearly that we must 
wake up and pay more attention to the physical and 
moral development of the youth of the country; that we 
are losing a large portion of our men from a standpoint 
of military efficiency, and are subjected to enormous 
wastage from the standpoint of economic and industrial 
efficiency. These are losses which the nation can ill af¬ 
ford, in view of the coming contest for industrial su¬ 
premacy. 

From three to six million American children are not 
getting enough to eat because their parents are unable 
to buy sufficient food, says a statement issued in August 
of this year by the children’s bureau of the department 
of labor. These are the children, the statement says, 
who are often pronounced by the parents and teachers 
to be “delicate,” “ailing,” “lazy” or just plain “ornery,” 
although their true affliction is malnutrition. 

The number of school children in the United States 
who are not getting sufficient food was placed at from 
15 to 25 per cent, while this was said to be true of one- 
fifth of the children attending school in New York 
City. 

Significant testimony concerning the relation between 
the high cost of living and the underfeeding of children 
is contained in “Standards of Child Welfare—A Re¬ 
port of the Children’s Bureau Conferences, May and 
June, 1919.” 

Dr. William R. P. Emerson, of Boston, Mass., a 
distinguished authority, states that about one-third of 
all the American school children are so badly malnour- 

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ished that it is impossible for the schools to reach rea¬ 
sonable standards of achievement. Dr. Emerson states 
that, “as a result, 20 to 40 per cent of those graduat¬ 
ing from the elementary schools are physically unfit.” 

Dr. David Mitchell, of the Bureau of Educational 
Experiments, New; York City, states that of the school 
children weighed and measured by his bureau during 
the last week of September, 1918, 30 per cent were 7 
per cent or more under weight for their height. 

Further evidence of the sinister importance of this 
situation was adduced by Dr. Thomas D. Wood, chair¬ 
man, committee of health problems in education, Na¬ 
tional Council of Education. Dr. Wood states that 
“three-quarters of the 22,000,000 school children in the 
United States have health defects which are actually 
or potentially injurious to them as prospective citizens 
of the Republic.” Dr. Wood says further that “20 
per cent at least, or 4,500.000, are suffering from mal¬ 
nutrition.” 

Dr. Graham Lusk, of Cornell University Medical 
College, discussing the nutrition of adolescent children, 
said: 

An adequate food supply is the first requisite of na¬ 
tional existence. If too little food is available , the first to 
suffer are the old people, and then the children, although 
these are often fed with the food designed for the moth¬ 
er, who sacrifices herself for the well-being of her off¬ 
spring. 

Dr. Lusk states that during a long period great num¬ 
bers of people have been in a state of undernutrition. 

So far the evidence has been taken from contribu- 
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tions of medical authorities. Economists show the 
other side of the picture. Prof. William F. Ogburn, 
of Columbia University, from studies made for the Na¬ 
tional War Labor Board and the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics, arrived at the astonishing conclusion that, 
while the food actually consumed by a child in a Phil¬ 
adelphia working class family during the first 16 years 
of life would cost $1,750, a family was actually able 
to expend only $718 in purchasing the child’s food. 
The difference between those figures, Prof. Ogburn 
stated, indicates the economies and the adjustments 
made in the family budget for food. That also sug¬ 
gests the reason for the malnutrition described by 
the physicians. 

Special investigations in various American cities made 
by the Children’s Bureau indicate the extent to which 
even babies are underfed because of the advance in 
prices of food. In Baltimore, for example, of children 
reported on between 2 years and 7 years of age, only 
29 per cent are now*—1918—having fresh milk to drink, 
as against 60 per cent a year ago. Less than 3 per cent 
of the children studied were having as much as three 
cups of milk a day, a desirable allowance for the aver¬ 
age child. Investigation revealed that a general substi¬ 
tution of tea and coffee in the place of milk was occur¬ 
ring. 

In Washington, also, it was found that babies and 
little children are not having enough milk to drink. 
More than half of those between 2 and 7 years of age 
studied by the public-health nurses were receiving no 
fresh milk to drink at all. The lack of fresh milk in 
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a child’s diet, medical experts state, is liable to have 
serious consequences. Not only is he deprived of the 
best of all foods for normal growth and development, 
but often he receives injurious substitutes in its stead. 
In the Washington families studied it was found that 
about 29.1 per cent of the babies and children who 
received no fresh milk to drink are receiving regularly 
tea and coffee as substitutes for milk. There is grave 
cause for concern in the fact that, among the chil¬ 
dren studied, the children between 2 and 7 years who 
last year were getting less than half the milk they 
should have are receiving this year—1918—only one- 
quarter of the desirable allowance, while fully one- 
third of the babies under 2 are receiving an amount 
insufficient for proper nourishment. 

Why are people, young and old, suffering from mal¬ 
nutrition and dying from the effects of poisonous, em¬ 
balmed foods in the land of unlimited production ? 
Simply because our food supply is in the hands of food 
speculators and gamblers. These speculators and gam¬ 
blers, in order to control the price at the point of pro¬ 
duction and the price at the point of consumption, are 
feeding the American people on cold storage and unfit 
food; food unfit for human consumption. 

Take as an illustration poultry. In June, 1919, we 
find 54,570,000 pounds of poultry in cold storage. No 
part of this poultry was in any manner, properly pre¬ 
pared for cold storage. The process used was this: 
The fowl is killed by being cut in the neck. The head 
is not taken off. It is not bled. It is not drawn. The 
insides are not taken out. The feathers are not taken 

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off. They are not cooled as nature would cool them. 
Immediately upon being killed they, in the condition 
above indicated, are thrown into a cooling room, with¬ 
out being bled, or drawn and with the insides not taken 
out and then deposited in large vaults. They remain 
in this condition, just as they are, for months and 
months. When they are taken out of cold storage to be 
placed on the market this is what happens: They are 
taken out and dumped in hot water and scalded, and 
the feathers taken off in this way and the skin torn. 
The skin is torn and the hot water has the effect of 
swelling the fowl and making it look like a fresh 
fowl. In addition to this, the head is left on it and the 
fowl deteriorates very rapidly after having been treated 
in that way. Even the retail men put these fowls in hot 
or warm water to make them swell out and look like 
fresh fowls and, incidentally, to gather greater weight. 
Millions of pounds of poultry treated and spoiled in this 
manner, are fed to the American people, who pay out¬ 
rageous prices therefore. 

Take as another illustration the eggs of the coun¬ 
try. This country is acutally divided up into districts 
and one packer has charge of one district and he may 
not buy or sell outside of that district without consent 
of the others. 

The price of eggs for April delivery is fixed by specu¬ 
lators the previous November. Having fixed the price, 
the agents of the speculators travel about and make con¬ 
tracts all over the country for delivery by the farmer in 
Chicago the following spring. Having purchased and 
stored the eggs, they control the available supply — 
High Cost of Living — Howe. 

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In June, 1919, there were 5,975,000 cases of eggs and 
11,306,000 pounds of frozen eggs in cold storage. There 
is a difference between frozen eggs and cold storage 
eggs. 

When any of the eggs get bad they are put through 
a drying process and they are sold in dried form. 

One of the egg operators is said to have made a mil¬ 
lion dollars profits in a single year and retired from busi¬ 
ness. — Howe. 

And so we could go on and on for volumes until we 
had exhausted every article of our food supply and 
find the same criminal and shameful manipulations. 
These manipulations rob the producer on the one hand 
and the consumer on the other and force the American 
people to live upon unwholesome and unfit food. In 
June, 1919, there was in cold storage, more properly 
called embalming stations, necessaries of life as fol¬ 
lows : 

Butter 30,000,000 pounds. 

Creamery Butter Stocks 29,190,222 pounds. 

Cured Beef 25,700,000 pounds. 

Frozen Lamb and Mutton 7,100,000 pounds. 

Frozen Pork 138,300,000 pounds. 

Pickled Pork 422,300,000 pounds. 

Frozen Poultry 54,570,000 pounds. 

Eggs 5,975,000 cases. 

Frozen Eggs 11,306,000 pounds. 

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In each and all of the above necessaries the price has 
sharply increased since the ending of the world war 
and is still going up. 

The total cold storage items reported in pounds in 
June, 1919, was 1,671,777,990 pounds. These figures do 
not include Army stores nor Army excess supply, which 
is distributed by the War Department. 

The sum of dry storage and cold storage (except 
apples) was on June 1, 1919, 9,547,058,030 pounds. 
This does not include Army supplies. 

Five great Chicago corporations, holding interests 
of a controlling nature, in 762 companies producing 
or dealing in 775 commodities absolutely control the 
food supply of the United States. They not only fix 
the price to the producer and the consumer, but they 
dictate the quality of food the American people shall 
eat. This combination, the food trust, is but a part 
of the great Money Hun combination that is now en¬ 
trenching themselves within our fair land. These 
five corporations are but a part of the Money Hun com¬ 
bination which is now defying the American people and 
challenging the government of the United States. The 
food trust is but one of the criminal combinations which 
go to make up the mighty world-wide combine with 
headquarters at Wall Street, New York. This is but 
one of the great organizations contributing to the hire¬ 
lings delegated and paid for ‘‘educating” the American 
people in the lessons of “patriotism” and “loyalty” to the 
country and flag. This mighty power has been pouring 
poison into the arteries of our whole sociological body, 
until our good people have almost lost their reason. 

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Congress, helpless, spineless and floundering, is drift¬ 
ing to the time when the people will ask why? And 
then they will act as the people of this country al¬ 
ways act. 

However the battle is ended, though proudly the victor comes, 
With fluttering flags and prancing nags and the echoing roll or 
drums, 

Still truth proclaims this motto on letters of living light, 

No question is ever settled until it is settled right. 

Oh, man bowed down by labor; oh, woman, young yet old; 

Oh, hearts oppressed in the toilers’ breast and crushed by the power 
of gold, 

Keep up your weary battle against triumphant might— 

No question was ever settled until it was settled right. 


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CHAPTER VII. 

WEALTH AND POVERTY. 

Again I turn to the wealth of the country and find 
that it is so vast that it is beyond the human mind 
to conceive; it is simply incomprehensible. In round 
figures our wealth now exceeds the stupendous sum of 
two hundred billion dollars, estimated by reliable au¬ 
thority at three hundred billion dollars, with an income 
of sixty billions a year. 

Our wealth is greater than the wealth of Great 
Britain, France and Italy combined. Our food produc¬ 
tion is the admiration and envy of the world. In 
1918 we produced a crop value of $21,000,000,000. 

Having only one-twentieth of the landed area of the 
civilized world, the United States produces one-fifth 
of the wheat, one-third of the coal, one-fourth of its 
gold, one-third of its manufactured wares, nearly two- 
thirds of its cotton and four-fifths of its corn. 

Despite our great wealth, unparalleled production, 
stupendous growth and unrivalled resources, as seen, 
we have poverty and want and business depressions 
throughout the land. The small banker and conserva¬ 
tive business man, the doctor and the lawyer, the teacher 
and professor, all are but pawns in the great game 
of life. The great unorganized middle class, the wealth- 
producing and nation-sustaining class is being ground 
to powder. People are asking questions that none 

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can answer. Some are beginning to lose faith in free 
government. In every line of business, in every pro¬ 
fession, in every trade it is a hard struggle to keep 
the wolf from the door. Honest, industrious and capable 
men are without work or positions. 

Why this? Why poverty and business depression in 
the land of abundance, activity, thrift, growth and de¬ 
velopment? Why want in the land of plenty? Why 
unrest and constant agitation where there should be con¬ 
tentment and happiness? 

The American people are begining to understand a 
few stubborn facts about our political, economic and 
social life, and among them are the following: 

The producer does not receive a fair portion of the 
product of his toil. 

The laborer does not receive a fair usage or a fair op¬ 
portunity in life. 

The average child of the producer is underfed and un¬ 
der cared for. 

There is no economic education in America. 

There is no fair opportunity for the laborer to rise. 

There is no confidence between the employer and the 
employe. 

There has, in the past, been a criminal hoarding of 
wealth to the great detriment of the whole people and 
the whole country. 

The government is helpless to grant relief under the 
present order. 

There must be a new order. 

There must be relief or there will be a revolution. 

These things are fairly understood by the American 
people. Slowly, but surely, in every part of the land 
they are settling into a determined mood. The de- 

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mand for equal justice must be heeded. That demand 
is rising from millions of human lips in this country 
today, and is unheeded. These people will fight for 
justice long before they will beg for charity. 

The day when the hirelings of the profiteers, the sec¬ 
ond story artists of the petty politician, the apoligist for 
the “dollar a year, for his government” and “a million 
dollars a year for his thieving corporation,” can stam¬ 
pede the American people with the criminal cry of 
“Bolsheviki,” “I. W. W.,” “Socialist,” “Pro-German” 
and “un-American,” as was done by the arch criminals 
of the world during the great war, is drawing to a 
sharp close. The American people are getting to the 
point where they are going to ask questions and they 
are going to have them answered. 

How true to the plunderers of old have our profiteers 
and criminal manipulators been. The Cornish plunderer, 
intent on the spoil, callous to every touch of humanity, 
shrouded in darkness, used to hold out a false light to 
the tempest-tossed vessel, and lure her and her pilot to 
that shore upon which she must be lost forever—the 
rock unseen, the ruffian invisible, and nothing apparent 
but the treacherous signal of security and repose. So, 
here in America the profiteers and plunderers during 
the war played upon the patriotism of the American 
people to muffle themselves in the gloom of their own 
base, dark and criminal designs. We hope that day 
has passed. Nevertheless, we suggest that even yet the 
cry of patriotism is a mask hiding the most vicious, 
venomous, blackest and cowardly criminals of all time— 
the profiteers and their hirelings. 

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I have in this chapter strayed, somewhat, from the 
path of my subject to emphasize again and yet again 
the thought that the storm is upon us. The fight is 
on. There is no peace. There will be no quarter. 
Destiny has decreed that America shall be the land of 
the great Armageddon. God has charged us with a 
high and holy duty, Americanism or the Money Huns 
are to triumph. If we are true to our charge we will 
buckle on the sword of the God of Righteousness and 
bless the world with the doctrine of Americanism, by 
ending forever, the power of the Money Huns of 
America. 

Careless seems the Great Avenger. History’s pages but record 
One death grapple In the darkness 'twlxt old systems and the Word. 
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne; 

Vet that scaffold sways the Future, and behind the dim Unknown 
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. 


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CHAPTER VIII. 

THE RED WAVE. 

A red wave, we are told by the press reports, threat¬ 
ens the whole world. In a sense this deduction is cor¬ 
rect. 

A wave, representing a strange power is sweep¬ 
ing the universe. What is it? It is the cry of human¬ 
ity, the demand for better living conditions for the pro¬ 
ducing diass. It is the cry for justice that will not 
down. 

The cause of the red wave is not found in the rank 
and file of any class. The cause is found in the des¬ 
potic manipulations of that world force called the “In¬ 
visible Government,” with branch offices on Wall Street, 
New York. This is the home of the force which is re¬ 
sponsible for the industrial, economic, political and social 
unrest in the world today. A broad, general, indefinite 
charge, you will say. 

In this connection we venture the suggestion that 
every reasonably sane person in the United States now 
realizes that there is something wrong; that there is 
an invisible government at Wall Street, New York; 
that it is and has been directing our financial and in¬ 
dustrial affairs for years; that it robs the producer on 
the one hand and the consumer on the other; that it is 
directly responsible for the high cost of living through¬ 
out the United States; that unless it is destroyed, it 

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will destroy free government and free institutions and 
make slaves of free men. 

These facts, I say, are so well and generally known 
throughout this country that there cannot be the slight¬ 
est question as to their existence. Their process of op¬ 
eration is very simple. Control at the point of produc¬ 
tion ; monopoly of the means of transportation and profit 
at the point of distribution, tells the story in a few 
words. 

The farmer has nothing to say about the price he 
receives for his product; he has nothing to say about 
the price he pays for the things he buys; he has noth¬ 
ing to say about the cost of transporting his goods to 
the consumer. The consumer has nothing to say about 
the price he pays for the goods he buys; nor anything 
to say about the cost of transportation from the pro¬ 
ducer. From the producer to the consumer the products 
of the soil must pay tribute to a multitude of jobbers 
and dealers before they are permitted to pass. The 
same is true of the path of the raw material as it goes 
to the manufactured article and into the hands of the 
consumer. 

This plan of process enables the ruling powers to 
pay to the producer ’just as little as possible and charge 
the consumers all they can stand to pay, and neither 
c!an g?et relief. ^ 

The American people are too prone to follow the hue 
and cry; too anxious to put off the day of settlement; 
too ready to use impulse for good judgment. 

Let me illustrate: Three traveling men whom we will 
call for this article, Smith, Brown and Jones, at a small 

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middle west town were discussing the financial and eco¬ 
nomic conditions of the country generally. 

Smith was very insistent that the submerged class of 
the United States was woefully ignorant of the indus¬ 
trial and economic conditions of the country and could 
be expected to follow the hue and cry of the press of 
the land. “It is no use,” he urged. “Capital for the 
first time in the history of this country is organized 
within its own ranks and presents one solid, compact 
unit. Labor is divided into classes, cliques and fac¬ 
tions, all fighting among themselves, which makes or¬ 
ganized labor, as a fighting unit, a minus quantity. 

“Right meaning people are divided into cults, parties 
and factions, all demanding their specific program and 
all contending that the other fellow is wrong. For 
reasons best known to themselves, the submerged class 
do not and will not think for themselves.” 

“You are dead wrong,” chipped in Brown. 

“Sure you are,” agreed Jones. 

“Well,” said Smith, “I will back my judgment with 
my money.” 

“I will bet you gentlemen $100.00 that I can dem¬ 
onstrate my contention to your satisfaction.” 

Being good sports, the wager was soon laid and this 
test was agreed upon: 

Brown and Jones were to name a town with a popu¬ 
lation of not less than one thousand. Smith was to 
have this town billed, announcing that he would speak 
upon a certain street on a certain night upon the sub¬ 
ject, “One Big Union;” that his entire address, except 
connecting words and introductory sentences, should be 
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taken from the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, 
Abraham Lincoln and “The New Freedom,” by Presi¬ 
dent Woodrow Wilson; that if he was permitted to con¬ 
tinue more than fifteen minutes with his speech he lost, 
otherwise he won. Everything was to be done in good 
faith for the purpose of demonstrating his position. 

The town in due time was named and billed, and at 
the appointed hour Smith climbed upon his drygoods 
box and, facing a crowd of twenty-five or thirty people, 
began his address. 

“Fellow Citizens,” said he, “I will speak to you to¬ 
night on an industrial subject, entitled “One Big Union.” 
I say to you that One Big Union is inevitable, it is as 
sure as the coming of tomorrow. 

I am a firm believer in the doctrine of progress. I 
hold “That all men are created equal, that they are 
endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable 
rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the 
pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, gov¬ 
ernments are instituted among men, deriving their just 
powers from the consent of the governed, that when¬ 
ever any form of government becomes destructive of 
these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to 
abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying 
its foundation on such principles and organizing its 
powers in such form as to them seem most likely to 
effect their safety and happiness.” I agree with the 
idea “that governments long established should not be 
changed for light and transient causes.” “But when a 
long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invari¬ 
ably the same object evinced a design to reduce them 

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under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their 
duty to throw off such government and to provide new 
guards for their future security.”-—(Declaration of In¬ 
dependence.) 

In other words: “This country, with its institutions, 
belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they 
grow weary of the existing government, they can ex¬ 
ercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their 
revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”— 
(Lincoln.) 

“It is not needed or fitting here, that a general ar¬ 
gument should be made in favor of popular institutions; 
but there is one point, with its connections, not so hack¬ 
neyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. 
It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing, if 
not above labor, in the structure of government. It is 
assumed that labor is available only in connection with 
capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, own¬ 
ing capital, somehow :by the use of it induces him to 
labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether 
it is best that capital shall hire laborers and thus induce 
them to work by their own consent, or buy them, and 
drive them to it without their consent. Having pro¬ 
ceeded so far, it is naturally concluded that all labor¬ 
ers are either hired laborers, or what we call slaves. 
And, further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired 
laborer, is fixed in that condition for life. Now, there 
is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, 
nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for 
life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these as- 

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sumptions are false, and all inferences from them are 
groundless. 

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Cap¬ 
ital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have ex¬ 
isted if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior 
of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” 
— (Lincoln.) 

The patriotic citizens of the town saw in these remarks 
sedition and Bolshevism and they began to disturb the 
speaker. “I. W. W.,” “Go back to Russia,” “Bolshe- 
viki,” “pro-German,” came in rapid succession from 
the crowd. 

“Hear me, Fellow Citizens, hear me,” pleaded Smith. 
“You know that ‘American industry is not free, as once 
it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man 
with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into 
the field, more and more impossible to compete with the 
big fellow. Why? Because the laws of this country do 
not prevent the strong from crushing the weak. That 
is the reason, and because the strong have crushed the 
weak the strong dominate the industry and economic 
life of this country.”—(Woodrow Wilson, “The New 
Freedom.”) 

Again the crowd registered its protest and it was plain 
to be seen that the speaker would not be permitted to 
proceed very much longer. 

“Let us reason together,” Smith pleaded. “Let us try 
to understand. The special privileged interests have 
poisoned your minds. But ‘their webs shall not become 
garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their 
work; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of 

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violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and 
they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts 
are thoughts of iniquity; waste and destruction are in 
their paths. The way of peace they know not; and there 
is no judgment in their goings; they have made them 
crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein shall not know 
peace. Therefore is judgment far from us; neither doth 
justice overtake us; we wait for light, but behold ob¬ 
scurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We 
grope for the wall like blind, and we grope as if we 
had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the night; 
we are in desolate places as dead men. We roar all 
like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for 
judgment, but there is none.’’—(Isaiah.) 

By this time the crowd was ready for action. How¬ 
ever, Smith kept on: “The time is here when I can say, 
‘Go to now ye rich men, weep and howl for your mis¬ 
eries that shall come upon you. Your riches are cor¬ 
rupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold 
and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be 
witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it 
were fire. Ye have heaped treasures together for the 
last days. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and 
been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a 
day of slaughter.”—(James.) 

Smith proceeded no further. The patriotic mob was 
upon him. They were ready to tar and feather him 
and would have done so had it not been for the precau¬ 
tion Smith had taken in advance. 

When the fray was over, even in spite of three armed 
guards and the town marshal, Smith had every appear¬ 
ed 


ance of having received very rough usage. All agreed 
that he had won his bet and earned his money. 

“That crowd certainly would have mobbed you,” ad¬ 
mitted Jones, when they reached their hotel. 

This story illustrates one of the characteristic traits 
of the average American. Under certain conditions 
they are humanely impulsive with a reckless disregard 
for cost or consequences. The arteries of our socialog- 
ical body have been filled with poison by the profiteering 
class. That poison is bearing fruit. As ye have sown 
so shall ye reap will be applied to the ruling class in 
this country to the uttermost farthing. 

The rank and file realize that peace and harmony are 
more desirable than strife and discord, and education 
and evolutionary propaganda more beneficial than ex¬ 
tremely radical measures. But it must not be forgotten 
that when the producer is driven to ruin by unjust dis¬ 
crimination, repressive force and oppressive laws he be¬ 
comes an anarchist at heart, he carries within himself a 
dangerous form of resentment readily exploded by con¬ 
tact with any force holding out any form of relief. 

Be certain of one thing. “Despair hates the conditions 
which have produced it and is ever ready to go to war 
against society and governments regardless of means 
and reckless of consequences. ,, 

In the struggle for existence the odds of might as 
against right ever have been on the side of the ruling 
class. 

The cry for justice from millions of lips has been 
coldly unheeded until hope is being changed to ven¬ 
geance. 


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The wealth cannot longer be withheld from the pock¬ 
ets of those who have, for the greater part, produced 
it, and avoid the far-reaching consequences involved in 
extreme radical action on the part of the producing 
class. 

The American people are a most patient, long-suf¬ 
fering and generous lot. They are of God’s chosen 
race. They will brook no interference when they set out 
to accomplish a given purpose. You can fool some of 
them all of the time, you can fool all of them some of 
the time, but you cannot fool all of them all of the time. 
There is a limit to the deception that can be practiced 
upon them. That limit is drawing dangerously near. 

Human nature is the same the world over. The Amer¬ 
ican people would not submit to tyranny and oppres¬ 
sion in governmental affairs in the early history of this 
country; and be not deceived, they will not submit to 
industrial, commercial, and economical tyranny and 
oppression now. They are patient and long-suffering, I 
grant you, but there are times when “patience ceases 
to be a virtue.” Let me admonish you, that the proverb¬ 
ial “worm will ultimately turn.” High-handed graft and 
criminal unbridled profiteering in the essentials of life 
have produced a condition of misery and discontent in 
this country unparalleled, a condition which will rapidly 
develop into a panic, followed by grim-visaged revolu¬ 
tion, if something is not immediately done to check it 
and correct it. 

Throughout the war they were given to understand 
that the war was being fought to establish and maintain 
certain great principles. Believing this they entered the 

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war with a determination to win. In five loans they 
subscribed by popular subscription $18,500,000,000 and 
offered the government several millions in excess of that 
great sum. In the language of the Master, they were 
ready to sell their garments and buy a sword. 

We entered the war “not because our material inter¬ 
ests were directly threatened or because any special 
treaty obligations to which we were parties had been 
violated, but only because we saw the supremacy and 
even the validity of right everywhere imperiled by the 
intolerable aggression of a power which respected neither 
right or obligation and whose very system of govern¬ 
ment flouted their rights of citizens as against the au¬ 
tocratic authority of his governors.” 

At the time of our entrance into the world conflict the 
joint Allied powers of Europe pledged the world the 
establishment and maintenance of four great funda¬ 
mental principles, which it was agreed, were vitally nec¬ 
essary to the preservation of free government and un¬ 
trampled human progress. Those four great principles 
were. 

First: No Annexations. 

Second: Freedom of the Seas. 

Third: Self-Determination of Small Peoples. 

Fourth: Disarmament. 

How well has the pledge of the Allied powers been 
kept? Let us see. England has seized vast territory 
in Egypt, German East Africa, German Southwest Af¬ 
rica, German Samoa, Naura, the Bismarck Archipelago, 
German Islands of the Solomon group and the German 
portion of New Guinea. 


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The strategic advantage won by England through the 
seizure of this territory gives her practical control over 
every drop of salt water in the world and makes the 
Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Seas mere British 
Lakes. This alone will bring about another war, because 
it is not in harmony with the great plan of human prog¬ 
ress and because this strangle hold upon the welfare of 
mankind must and will be broken. Make no mistake 
about it, men will fight and die whenever it is neces¬ 
sary to secure their God-given rights of life, liberty 
and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, the peace 
treaty itself is the foundation and superstructure for an¬ 
other world war. League of Nations, or no League of 
Nations, the world cannot long remain as it has been 
carved up at the peace conference. 

As to self-determination of small peoples, a great 
progressive principle that will not down, all that is nec¬ 
essary is to point to Ireland, where the right of trial 
by jury, the right of habeas corpus and all safe-guards 
usually thrown around a people in civilized countries 
have been overthrown and British dominion sustained 
only by the presence of an enormous army of occupation, 
equipped with all the murderous weapons of actual mod¬ 
ern warfare. If this is not sufficient, attention might be 
called to the fact that Japan was given clear title to 
20,000,000 Koreans, whom they are butchering at will, 
and Shantung, with its 36,000,000 Chinamen, was de¬ 
liberately and with premeditated malice taken from 
China and handed over to her, while her dominion over 
Manchuria was fully protected. If these are not suf¬ 
ficient, then Egypt, India and South Africa might be 

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introduced to speak just a word. The truth is and the 
world will soon learn it, neither justice nor the interest 
of mankind predominated at the Versailles conference. 

The force and organization of the international gam- 
lers, sometimes called speculators, used Great Britain as 
their cat’s paw and compelled the peace conference to 
shamefully repudiate all four of the fundamental prin¬ 
ciples sacredly pledged by the Allied powers to the 
world. 

When the significance and effect of these stubborn 
and blazing facts dawn on the American people they 
are going to ask Why? And when it develops that this 
whole plan is but a part of the plan of the Money Huns 
to dominate and control the world and make Slaves of 
free people, it is safe to say they will act in no unmis¬ 
takable manner. 

No loyal American, no friend of free government, will 
ever regret the part played by the United States in the 
world war. The lives sacrificed were freely given, the 
billions spent will be paid without a murmur and the 
pain suffered at home and abroad will be passed with a 
smile. As our boys were loyal and brave and faithful 
to the flag and country on the field of battle, so the 
American people will be to the cause and principles for 
which the war was fought. The heroes who sleep their 
eternal sleep in Flanders fields shall not have died in 
vain. Democracy, Freedom of the Seas, Self-Deter¬ 
mination of Small Peoples, No Annexations, the Doc¬ 
trine of Force and Deception Must Go. These are the 
principles we fought for and as sure as God rules we 
are going to have them. The person ,who deserts 

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those principles deserts all the American boys fought 
for in Europe, is a traitor and a coward. 

Call it the red wave if you will, the fact is, there is 
a power sweeping the universe and touching the hearts 
of millions of down-trodden people, giving them new 
hope, courage and inspiration and they are lifting their 
eyes to the heavens and following this star of light as 
the three wise men followed the star of promise that 
led them to the manger in Bethlehem. 

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will 
burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth’s cen¬ 
tral fire, It may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm 
It; mountains may press it down; but Its inherent and unconquer¬ 
able force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time 
or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and 
flame up to heaven. 


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CHAPTER IX. 

LET US REASON TOGETHER. 

Let no one misconstrue the motive which has actu¬ 
ated this warning. I view with alarmed apprehension 
the black, threatening storm clouds gathering fast and 
heavy upon the horizon of the political, economic and 
social world. 

Indeed, if we could but realize the truth, the storm 
is actually upon us. The crisis is here. The United 
States is sailing into one of the biggest storms that 
ever swept a sea. Unless something is done the ship 
of state will sail straight into that storm with all steam 
on and all lights out. I say all steam on, if the food 
monopolizers who have a hunger hold on the American 
people can not be compelled to let go. All lights out, if 
blind officials absolutely refuse to comprehend the grav¬ 
ity of the situation. What shall we do and whither 
'Shall we go for safety? 

In this effort I have but one thought and that is to 
awaken the people to a realization of the impending 
danger. I have every confidence in the good judgment 
and patriotism of the rank and file of the American 
people. If they are given a fair opportunity to under¬ 
stand the fight before them they can be depended upon 
to do their whole duty to the last drop of their energy. 
But the land is filled with scribes and pharisees. The great 
regrettable thing is the arteries of information have been 
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poisoned by the moneyed interests. Indeed, our whole 
socialogical body has been poisoned by these interests, 
whose whole effort has been to stir up hatred, strife 
and sectional struggle among the people to keep them 
separated. Once the people become united they will 
wipe from our political, social and economic life the evils 
so detrimental to good government and good citizenship. 

Therefore, I feel it to be the solemn duty of every¬ 
one living in this country to know of the present strug¬ 
gle and of its far-reaching consequences. 

Let us look upon the world as it is. Let us view 
the battlefield of human activity in a calm, patriotic 
and open minded manner. Let us live and think and 
work for the good of humanity, for the upbuilding of 
the race. Let us bring back a little of the spirit that 
animated the men who established this great Republic. 
Let us be honest with ourselves. 

There is not a solid foot of political ground in Eu¬ 
rope or Asia. There is no peace in the world. There 
is no hope of peace under the present order. The whole 
universe is a boiling, bubbling, blazing furnace of un¬ 
rest and dissatisfied peoples. No sane effort is being 
made to strike at the root of the cause, except that made 
by the productive interests. 

Mr. Vanderlip, retired head of the National City Bank 
of New York, who spent several months in Europe in¬ 
vestigating the industrial and economic conditions, 
speaking as a finished banker and financier, says: 

When I reached England she was on the verge of rev¬ 
olution. There is inflammable material in every country. 
You leave any part of it unprotected, idle, starving and 
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there is going to be social disorder—a black spot, infec¬ 
tious and likely to spread. Whenever want and hunger 
become severe enough there will be blazing revolution. 
If the blaze should become wide spread the Atlantic 
would not be broad enough to keep us safe from its 
sparks. 

Former Prime Minister of England Asquith says: 

The economic conditions of the world and of our own 
country were never more menacing.” 

Germany, after waging the bitterest and most de¬ 
structive war of all time, has retired for the next Ar¬ 
mageddon. Over her archways is written her national 
hymn in one word, “Vengeance.” When she signed 
the peace treaty she boldly told, the world that she would 
regard it as a “scrap of paper” at her first opportunity. 
This German view is actually approved by Jean Lon- 
guet, the brilliant socialist writer of France. Mr. Smillie, 
one of England’s greatest labor leaders, said before a 
great mass meeting at Albert Hall, in London: “We 
reject it (the peace treaty) and the men who have 
made it.” 

Between the Black Sea and the Baltic and Rhine 
River and the Pacific Ocean are more than three hun¬ 
dred million dissatisfied people, who had no voice in the 
decisions of Versailles. 

China, with her vast populaton of four hundred mil¬ 
lion people, has repudiated the: peace treaty and has 
started a campaign to “wake up” her people. 

Italy would have repudiated the treaty had it not been 
for the fact that her country was bankrupt and helpless. 
She is nursing a sore spot and waiting for her oppor¬ 
tunity. 


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The Egyptians are making war on Great Britain. 

The Poles are fighting the Ukranians, Ruthenians, 
Germans, Bolsheviki, Lithuanians and the Czecho¬ 
slovaks. 

The Hungarian Reds are fighting the Roumanians. 

The Socialists and Radical labor leaders of England, 
France and the United States are openly denouncing 
the peace treaty. 

The Ameer of Afghanistan has sworn eternal enmity 
against Great Britain and is now waging war on that 
empire. 

The Greeks are at war with the Turks, while the 
Jugo-Slavs are fighting the Italians. 

The Allies are still fighting the Hungarians. 

The Bolsheviki is fighting the Allies, Poles, Rou¬ 
manians, Letts, Esthonians, Finns and the Kolchak 
forces. 

The Bulgar Reds are at war with the Bulgar Royal¬ 
ists. 

The Japanese are butchering the Koreans. 

Carranza is struggling with the forces of Villa and 
Angeles, also making war on the Felistas, the Yakin 
Indians, the Maya Indians and the Zapatistas, all clash¬ 
ing in armed conflict in different parts of Mexico. 

Ireland is demanding her independence from Eng¬ 
land and is now collecting a fund to carry on the Irish 
Republic. 

Generally speaking, Europe and Asia is just a big 
bankrupt place full of suffering humanity where war- 
shattered, hopeless and starving peoples are sinking in 
the mire of despair and despondency. This situation is 
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not unlike the situation that confronted the Athenians in 
the days of Solon. 

We again quote Mr. Vanderlip, the banker and 
financier from New York: “There are forces in Europe 
more destructive than the war,” he declares. “Peoples 
are not going to work anywhere in a hopeful spirit, 
they lie about, unable to begin; their morale has been 
injured, if not broken.” 

Five years of intensified training in the art of kill¬ 
ing, crushing and destroying every resisting force has 
remoulded their conception and natural understanding 
of life, property and ideals of humanity. Add to this the 
psychological effect of finding nothing but ruin, waste 
and destruction on their return to civil life and you 
can begin to understand the mood and temper of the 
people of Europe. 

The intellectual vision of the people, generally, ha-s 
been piloted back, back into the dark recesses of bar¬ 
barism. Their finely developed sensibilities of high, 
human ideal of brotherhood and Christian conduct were 
deadened. Their dreams of fraternal help and human 
uplift were dissipated. Their high and holy conception 
of life was destroyed. 

Before the war the average worker did not receive 
enough to live on . During the war they were driven, 
by the law of self-preservation, to the very highest pitch 
of human activity and emotion. They were trained and 
schooled to utilize every ounce of organized force and 
energy, at their command, to destroy the force oppos¬ 
ing them. All things, life, liberty, human brotherhood, 
fraternal spirit, Christian tenderness, were subordinate 

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to the law of destruction. For five long years the peo¬ 
ples of the world lived in this kind of an atmosphere. 
Then came the armistice. The weary, war-worn people 
must reconstruct and remould their entire beings over 
night and report for duty, as civilians, and bow in 
humble obedience to the Huns of industry who remained 
home and profiteered upon the wives and children of the 
men who had fought and suffered and sacrificed in the 
great struggle to make the world safe for democracy. 
With this change came a natural reaction. 

In every period of reaction, or convalescence the mind 
is tired and unresponsive. The fires of activity, emo¬ 
tion and determination have burned out. The long, 
weary vigil is over and rest and sleep are sweet. In 
this condition the people are beyond the point of ven¬ 
geance. They care little for self-preservation. They 
are settled in a sullen gloom of despair. They are very 
much like a person awakening from an awful night¬ 
mare. 

So we have a picture of France, Belgium, Russia, 
Roumania, Greece, Servia, Austra-Hungary, Bulgaria 
and Turkey when the peace conference was called to 
order. 

Here we witness the crime of the age and we wit¬ 
ness it from two angles. 

Every humanitarian instinct, every atom of brotherly 
love, every thought of human uplift, every breath of 
Christian principle demanded for these people an op¬ 
portunity to recover their balance in the great game of 
life; an opportunity to be themselves again. 

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Was any such thought entertained or idea suggested? 
Absolutely no. 

The high, dignified and mighty persons representing 
a number of nations met at Versailles to draft a peace 
treaty. 

Did a single member of them offer a tonic for the 
weary, heart-broken, war-worn people, or suggest a plan 
of leading them, back to normal life? Absolutely no! 

Did these dignitaries of world pomp and power hand 
them back an opportunity to regain their hopes and am¬ 
bitions in life? Absolutely no! 

The high priests of world finance and dignitaries of 
world power heard not the voice of the common peo¬ 
ple who had fought, financed and won the war. 

The prayer of the widow, the wail of the orphan, 
the cry of the soldier for justice, fell upon barren soil. 

These same dignitaries were decorated with promises 
when they called the husband from his wife, the bread¬ 
winner from his home, the bridegroom from the altar 
and the son from his mother and sent them into that 
seething, burning, blistering and torturing hell called 
the world war. And while these same men were fight¬ 
ing and suffering for World Democracy these same 
dignitaries were permitting the Money Huns to build 
up their iniquitous combination around the sacred rights 
of their homes. 

And so it came to pass that the moneyed interests 
of the world wined and advised with the world cen¬ 
sors while they were carving up the earth and parceling 
it out in Accordance With the Terms of Secret Treaties. 

Instead of yielding to the crying and uncompromising 
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demand for a new order, an order that would give the 
peoples of the earth an opportunity to regain their bal¬ 
ance, readjust themselves and re-establish their trades, 
vocation and industries the shylocks of the world bent 
every energy to re-establish the old order and prop up 
the old vicious, tumbled, indefensible economic and in¬ 
dustrial system which existed before the war. 

The Versailles conference adopted the view of the 
Shylocks of the world and attempted to “stabilize world 
finance” as their first great duty. 

These premises adopted, it became necessary to join 
in the plan of propping up the old, tumbled-down eco¬ 
nomic system of Europe which had done so much to 
bring on the war. Realizing that Europe was bankrupt 
and could not, of its own efforts, carry out this plan, 
it became necessary to make some kind of a combination 
between England, France, Japan and the United States, 
with the idea that the credit, wealth and debts of these 
countries should be pooled for the purpose of stabiliz¬ 
ing world finance, or at least tiding England over its 
present crisis. 

On this subject Sir George Paish, famous English 
financial expert, says: 

I see no other way out, and that is by capital levies 
both National and International. I have made the sug¬ 
gestion that America and England each agree to wipe, 
out, say ONE THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS of 
debts owed them by Continental countries and pool an 
international credit in the LEAGUE OL NATIONS. 

This thought found immediate response from Ameri¬ 
can moneyed interests. James S. Alexander, president 
of the National Bank of Commerce of New York and 
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a member of a committee of which J. P. Morgan is 
chairman, said: 

A pool of Europe's needs should be met by a pool of 
America’s resources. That is, America's resources should 
be applied to Europe's needs through a great, central¬ 
ized credit organization, with extensive powers of co¬ 
ordination. 

Mr. Henry P. Davidson, partner in the J. P. Morgan 
& Co. firm, of New York City, and one of the financial 
advisers to our president in France, in speaking to the 
bankers of Chicago in June, 1919, stated: 

“You've helped to pay for the war. You've helped to 
loan $10,000,000,000 to Europe, which she cannot pay at 
present. But you are not through yet. You must help 
pay for Europe's reconstruction, and the Erst little bill 
for your remittance is $3,000,000,000. 

Europe is groggy from the effects of the war. She is 
debt-ridden. She is hungry. She needs copper and cot¬ 
ton and machinery and everything else. Her factories are 
idle. You and all the rest of us Americans have to help 
her get back to where she was before the war. 

We must find out what she needs in reason, and dis¬ 
tribute our goods accordingly. My suggestion is to co¬ 
ordinate all our industries and have the whole directed by 
one central organization, supported and assisted by the 
Federal government. Thus the chaos that zvould result 
from individual endeavors will be avoided. 

My suggestion is that debentures might be issued 
against the credits established in Europe, secured by 
everything given against the shipment. Every country 
would guarantee debentures against it. The debentures 
would really be against the whole of Europe. The bank¬ 
ing interests could place these debentures with the public 
distributed as widely as possible. Complete agreement 

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should exist with the administration and with the Treas¬ 
ury Department . 

Why was the United States brought into this com¬ 
bination? Because the English Shylocks must have our 
gold, they must prey upon our unlimited resources, they 
must have our best young manhood to spill their blood 
upon foreign fields in order that the money power may 
not lose its grip upon the throat of the world’s indus¬ 
tries. Because Europe is bankrupt financially and 
wholly incapable of fighting its own battles and because 
with our help the yoke of Shylockism can be welded 
about the necks of the peoples of the earth before they 
can recover from the shock of the world war. 

At the peace conference England played all of her 
cards from “cold decks,” using Japan as her tout. Japan, 
that wily, tricky, ambitious nation of the Orient, who 
did very little in the war, emerged from the Versailles 
meeting with a list of prizes of plunder second only to 
that of Great Britain. All because it was necessary for 
England to have Jap support to save her Shylocks. 

If the Jap-Brit plan of justice, as dealt out in the 
peace treaty, is a fair sample of what the peoples of 
the earth may expect from them through the League 
of Nations, when adopted, then may heaven deliver us 
from any jurisdiction of the League of Nations. 

The insolent, Hun-like, shameless, brutal betrayal of 
China, the abandonment of helpless, bleeding Korea and 
the contempt £or struggling Ireland and hopeful Persia 
are solemn warnings to the whole world of what will 
happen when the League of Nations is handed 
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over 


to England and Japan, as it will be, if adopted in its 
present form. 

Let us return to the battlefield of human activities 
in the industrial and economic world. 

France is facing a nation-wide strike because of the 
high cost of living. The Chamber of Deputies has 
passed a law providing for the death penalty for profi¬ 
teers. 

In Italy returned soldiers and workmen are con¬ 
fiscating the stores of shopkeepers in many cities. The 
government is most fearful of the outcome. 

The labor party of England has taken its stand and 
is demanding that the coal mines be nationalized and 
to enforce this demand are striking with 250,000 labor¬ 
ers. They have also demanded that Lloyd George and 
his cabinet see to it that the price of food be reduced 
or resign, and to back this demand thousands and thou¬ 
sands of laborers all over England are striking. These 
men, particularly the returned soldier, are developing 
such a mood that the authorities dare not declare martial 
law. Organized labor in all parts of England is de¬ 
manding the return of all soldiers from Russia. Each 
day is bringing some new scandal connecting the rulers 
of England with investments in Russia, Austria and 
Turkey. 

England is paying “unemployment wages’’ to more 
than a million workers, amounting to over a million, two 
hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds a week. In 
Belgium eight hundred thousand are receiving “unem¬ 
ployment wages.” Scotland is experiencing the same 
high rate of “unemployment wages.” 

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Spain has just passed through her first stage of in¬ 
dustrial uprisings. 

The working men of the Dominion of Canada arf* 
demanding the right of “collective bargaining” and are 
being backed by certain labor organizations in the United 
States. They are also demanding relief from the high 
cost of living. In their recent strike they boldly defied 
the Dominion Government and martial law was not in¬ 
voked because of the radicalism of the returned soldier. 

In the United States, the Lusk Committee of New 
York City reports that there are from 300,000 to 500,- 
000 people in that city alone advocating forcible seizure 
of property. It reports that there are 2,500 trained agi¬ 
tators on the payroll of certain propaganda committees 
with 265 publications in the United States. 

Throughout the Pacific Northwest and particularly 
on the Pacific coast Bolshevism is openly advocated and 
the Soviet Government of Russia is openly endorsed. 
These radicals have no difficulty in filling the largest 
halls and auditoriums on the coast. 

The Railroad Brotherhood, an organized class con¬ 
scious army of 5,500,000 determined adherents are de¬ 
manding the nationalization of the railroads and coal 
mines. 

The Non-Partisan League, a farmers’ organization 
with thousands of members and each day adding more 
and more, are demanding reforms almost equivalent to 
State Socialism. Throughout the entire west this or¬ 
ganization is growing by leaps and bounds. At the 
state convention of the State Federation of Labor in the 
State of Washington, held in June this year, organized 
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labor joined hands with the Railroad Brotherhood and 
the Farmers’ organization and formed a new political 
power called Triple Alliance. This movement is now 
finding favor in other states, and promises to be the one 
big political force, with a constructive program, to bring 
about a new order. 

The Workers, Soldiers and Sailors Council, a very 
radical organization, is numerically the strongest return¬ 
ed soldier and sailor organization on the coast. They 
now have paid organizers, their own newspapers and 
maintain propaganda committees. 

In short, the people who toil and spin; the people 
who by the sweat of their brow eat their bread, are 
ninety per cent radical in their economic views and Are 
Ready for Action. 

They Recognize the Class Struggle. 

The law-making body of the United States recognizes 
the class struggle, but are not big or brave or resource¬ 
ful enough to strike out clean for a new order. I quote 
from the Congressional Record of July 19, 1919: 

Congress is fiddling while Rome burns . Asinine, stu¬ 
pid, childish arguments as to whether a thing should be 
called twiddledee or twiddlededum block progress in both 
houses of Congress. “Greatf’ men argue over the day¬ 
light saving law, they squabble over question of whether 
beer containing one-half of one per cent or tzvo and 
three-quarters per cent alcohol is intoxicating. 

In the meantime the profiteers and grafters , daylight 
highway robbers, are reaching into the pockets of the 
people and helping themselves. And no one says them 
nay. They don't exactly (f need the money” but they 
(C want the money” and they are getting it, leaving the 
poor devil who earns his dollars honestly to hold the 

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empty bag. There are no lazos adequate to curb these 
wolves, these parasites who feed on the blood of the 
Nation. 

That our economic and social problems will vitally 
affect the peace and progress of the world no sane per¬ 
son doubts, or even questions. That the movement called 
the “Red Wave” which is now sweeping the universe 
is the effect of the cruel injustice met by the producing 
classes of the world cannot be gainsaid. Since the “Red 
Wave” is the effect, what is the cause, one may ask? 

Why are the Revolutionary forces gaining and gain¬ 
ing in strength and activity in free America? 

Why this mighty upheavel and why are all the pro¬ 
ductive forces demanding a new order? 

What gives aid, comfort and strength to that power¬ 
ful under-current of radicalism! so prevalent among the 
people who toil, spin and produce? 

The questions can, in a general way, be answered very 
easily. 

(a) High cost of living. 

(b) A vicious, inequitable, indefensible and intoler¬ 
ant economic and industrial system. 

(c) The activities of the invisible government in its 
control over our law-making and law-enforcing depart¬ 
ments of government. 

(d) The brutal injustice of using the lava-enforcing 
department of the government, in many cases, to destroy 
the constitutional rights of the people. 

(e) The destruction of American ideals and Amer¬ 
ican principles by the mailed fist and iron heel applica¬ 
tion of the doctrine of force and fraud. 

(f) The attempt to shackle the people with the man- 
icles of the Money Huns. 


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(g) The refusal of the law-making body to hear the 
cry for justice coming from millions of lips of the pro¬ 
ducing class. 

Since the cause and effect of the bitter unrest, in¬ 
creasing with every tick of time, are plain and known to 
all who read and run, what is the remedy? 

How shall the cause be destroyed, is the most impor¬ 
tant question in the mind of every right thinking person 
today. 

The man whom the world trusted. The man whose 
every word was law and gospel. The man who gave 
struggling humanity courage, hope and inspiration has 
told us that we are a world power and that we must not 
break the heart of the peoples of the world. 

If we follow his advice to its logical end we will com¬ 
pel England, the home of the Shylocks of the world, 
and Japan the Prussia of the Orient, by economic 
pressure, to live up to their solemn and sacred pledge 
to the world on at least four very important principles, 
viz: 

FREEDOM OF THE SEAS. 

NO ANNEXATIONS. 

SELF-DETERMINATION FOR SMALL PEO¬ 
PLES. 

DISARMAMENT. 

These four great principles, most vital to the peace 
and progress of the world, should become a part of the 
Constitution of the League of Nations before the United 
States ratifies it. The campaign catch cry “it will 
keep us out of wars” means little to us, because we were 
fooled by it once before. 


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As for our own country we should: 

(a) Destroy the invisible government with offices in 
New York. 

(b) Destroy the power of the Money Huns in Amer¬ 
ica forever. 

(c) Require that all war profits be applied to the pay¬ 
ment of the war debt. 

(d) Require that all American soldiers be returned 
home. 

(e) Eliminate all non-producing elements from our 
economic and industrial life. 

(f) Devote our National energies to the development 
of our resources and building up of our industries. 

All of these steps can and should be taken in a law¬ 
ful, and orderly manner, by organizing the producing 
classes, both politically and economically. 

Surely, here is a common ground where all the pro¬ 
ductive forces of the country can meet for self preserva¬ 
tion. 

I appreciate only too well that it is very hard to get 
the rank and file of the productive forces to organize 
their energies and fight as an organized unit. 

“Let the storm break, let the revolution come,” the 
radical agitator shouts, as he hides his head, like an 
ostrich, in the sand. 

“There can be no compromise between the employer 
and the employee, the wage system must go,” says a 
powerful militant labor organization. “The world for 
the workers,” echoes another. 

“Socialization of industry is the only solution,” says 
the Socialist. “Single tax is the only remedy,” says 
the next. “Communism,” whispers a strange voice. 

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These well-meaning forces remind one very much of 
the Tower of Babel. 

Congress has no reconstruction plan worthy of men¬ 
tion, because they will attempt to patch up the old order 
existing before the war. This cannot be done. The old 
order must go. 

While Congress is “fiddling” the world about us is 
moving at a tremendous pace. 

Germany has already opened negotiations with the 
Soviet government of Russia and very soon will open 
trade relations with the Russian people. These trade 
relations and trade rights will be fully protected under 
the terms of the Versailles treaty. This means that the 
United States has been decoyed into a trap. Russia, 
heretofore our staunch friend and supporter, is becom¬ 
ing embittered against the United States. Germany, in 
her trade drive, is encouraging this feeling by pointing 
out that the United States is backing the Jap-Brit plan 
of conquest in the Orient. The same situation prevails 
in China. 

With her genius in organization, Germany will soon 
weld together, in some form of government, the war¬ 
ring factions of Russia and for this will be hailed as 
the Saviour of that ill-fated land. This master stroke 
in world politics will restore, in a large measure, world 
power standing for Germany. 

“Made in Germany” brand of wares will soon find 
their way into the trade marts of the world. It will 
soon dawn on the ipeoples of the world that the moneyed 
interests of Berlin, Vienna and Constantinople are work- 

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ing, as an organized unit, with the moneyed interests of 
London, Paris, Petrograd and New York. 

Indeed, since the armistice was signed Germany has 
received financial help from New York and London and 
is at this time selling her wares in the United States, 
Great Britain and Italy. While this is going on, our 
Rip Van Winkles at Washington are preparing to “pool” 
our resources with the debts of Europe for the purpose 
of stabilizing world finance. This “pooling scheme” 
can bring nothing but ruin and black disaster to this 
country. 

The Pan-German dream called the Berlin-Constan- 
tinople-Bagdad line of 1914 will be called the Berlin- 
Petrograd-Tokio line in 1920. Great Britain, scenting 
this move on the international chess board of world 
politics, is backing Japan, the Prussian government of 
the Orient, in her hurried drive westward through 
China. With her control over Manchuria, Korea, For¬ 
mosa and Shantung, and with her backing from Great 
Britain, Japan now boldly announces her dream of world 
conquest as follows: 

That the age in which the Anglo-Japanese Alliance 
was the pivot of American-Japanese co-operation as es¬ 
sential feature of Japanese diplomacy is gone. In the 
future we must not look eastward for friendship, but 
westward. 

Let the Bolsheviki of Russia be put down and the more 
peaceful party established in power. In them Japan will 
find a strong ally. By marching then westward to the 
Balkans, to Germany, to France, and Italy, the greater 
part of the world may be brought under our sway. The 
tyranny of the Anglo-Saxons at the peace conference is 
such that it has angered both Gods and men. Some may 
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abjectly follow them in consideration of their petty in¬ 
terests, but things will ultimately settle down as has just 
been indicated. 

Japan’s dream of world conquest makes the Pan-Ger¬ 
man scheme look like a pigmy. It, however, gives Brit¬ 
ain her hope as expressed by Cecil Rhodes of bringing 
the whole world under the British flag. 

Announcement that the Shah of Persia would visit 
Europe, with circumstances relative to his trip which 
have recently come to light, is causing much comment 
in the French political press circles, criticism predominat¬ 
ing. The Echo de Paris says: 

“Great Britain has just imposed upon Persia a verit¬ 
able protectorate. It is an important step on the course 
which the London cabinet has been following for the 
past five years, and it is hoped the expansion of British 
influence in that region does not mean the effacement 
of France.” 

Attention is drawn to the fact that the Anglo-Persian 
treaty was concluded without being submitted to the 
league of nations. 

Within six weeks of the signing of the covenant of 
the league of nations, which provides in article 8 for the 
fixing of the scale of national armaments by the coun¬ 
cil of the league, Great Britain has entered into an agree¬ 
ment with Persia to supply that country with such mil¬ 
itary officers, munitions, and equipment as may be con¬ 
sidered necessary. 

Furthermore, Great Britain is to supply and Persia 
to pay for whatever expert advisers are deemed to be 

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necessary after a consultation between the two govern¬ 
ments. The money for improving conditions in Persia, 
amounting to $10,000,000, will be loaned by Gfeat Brit¬ 
ain at the comfortable interest of 7 per cent. 

For months past the Persian delegation in Paris has 
been seeking to lay specific questions before the confer¬ 
ence. It has been reported that every nation repre¬ 
sented in Paris has been perfectly willing to hear Per¬ 
sia’s statements except Great Britain. By obtaining this 
monopoly Great Britain has placed herself in a position 
to do for Persia what Persia desired the peace confer¬ 
ence to do in the name of all the Allies. 

Practically, Persia now forms a link in the chain of 
British influence from Egypt to the antipodes. Espe¬ 
cially important is the bearing of this new agreement 
upon future relations between Great Britain and Rus¬ 
sia, which in pre-war days pursued a policy of active 
aggression in northern Persia and is practically certain 
to hold similar aspirations when a stable government 
is established in the former empire of the Czar. 

Under the old regime Persia practically was divided 
between Russia and Great Britain, the former taking 
the northern part, including Teheran, the capital, and the 
British the south, with a neutral zone between. The 
treaty by which this was done still is in effect, and there 
is little doubt that in time Russia will claim that it is 
still a binding agreement, which will entail grave 
possibilities as between Russia and England. 

China, alive to the Jap-Brit game of world dominion, 
is preparing to challenge their aggressions in the Ori¬ 
ent. This means the waking up of the “Sleeping Giant” 

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of the east, which is a very unwise thing to do just at 
this time. 

Russia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Holland and Aus¬ 
tria are certain to back Germany in her Berlin-Petro- 
grad-Tokio drive. 

France can hardly afford to permit the Jap-Brit plan 
of conquest to creep into Europe from Asia. 

Italy cannot afford to permit her flank to fall under 
full control of Great Britain, because then in one fell 
swoop her “National Dream” is at an end. 

This is the psychological time for the United States 
to wake up and adopt a financial and foreign policy 
consistent with her opportunities and responsibilities. 

If the United States will do this she would be the 
balance of world power for the next century and bring 
untold happiness to the world. Shall we take this step % 
and thereby become the irresistible power for the uplift 
of mankind and the glory of the race, or will we break 
the heart of the world by cravenly surrendering to the 
power of the Money Huns? 

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he which is filthy, 
let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him be righteous 
still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 


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CHAPTER X. 

LIGHT AHEAD. 

The darkest hour is just before the dawn. Weeping 
may endure for a night, |but .joy cometh in the morning. 

Out of the darkness of our economic and political life 
blazes a light of hope and inspiration. The progres¬ 
sive, productive forces of the country are organizing into 
a harmonious unit with a sane constructive program. 

They propose to tear down and destroy the old, inde¬ 
fensible, iniquitous economic order and build upon its 
ruins a new order consistent with the needs and demands 
, of the whole people and the upbuilding of the whole 
country. 

Three mighty organizations of the producing class are 
gradually coming together with a plan for united action. 

The Railroad Brotherhood, an organized, disciplined, 
class-conscious army of 5,500,000 determined adherents, 
led by brainy, skillful and resourceful leaders, with a 
campaign fund of millions, have determined to national¬ 
ize both the railroads and the coal mines. 

In this movement they are backed by the American 
Federation of Labor, the Non-Partisan League, the 
Farmers’ Grange and the Farmer Unions. Also by the 
progressive elements, often referred to as radicals. This 
will develop the most important and far-reaching eco¬ 
nomic struggle ever staged in America. 

The plan proposed by the Railroad Brotherhood will 
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eventually bring the Money Huns of America to their 
knees before the bar of public justice and drive from 
our industrial, political and economic life the pirates and 
gamblers who have so long robbed and plundered the 
American people and prostituted our whole national life. 

It will give the country a properly organized, unified, 
systematized and operated system of transportation and 
distribution. The “public be damned” attitude will be 
transformed into “the public be served” policy. It will 
serve as an important stimulus, or incentive for both 
individual and collective effort and give the people new 
hope and new life. In short it will be the foundation of 
the new order. 

“England and France discovered, when the war broke 
out, that they could not trust their transportation sys¬ 
tems in private hands when the life of the nation was 
in the balance and both countries immediately took over 
the operation of the railroads.”—(Howe.) 

In the United States there was a complete and shame¬ 
ful breakdown at a most critical time and this govern¬ 
ment, like France and England, found it necessary to 
take over the operation of the means of transportation 
and communication. 

This enabled us to fully understand two very impor¬ 
tant propositions: First, that the railroads, the very life 
of the nation, were operated for profit, and Second, that* 
the management and control of the roads would insist 
on their profits even if their attitude meant ruin to 
the government. 

The people also learned that this semi-public func¬ 
tionary was the middle link of the chain drawn between 

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the producer and the consumer and the thing depended 
upon by the moneyed interests in their plundering 
game of robbing the producer on the one hand and the 
consumer on the other. It was but a step then to ascer¬ 
tain that it was the instrument used by the food trusts 
to engineer their great game of profiteering, controlling 
prices and markets. This path led the people into the 
very jungles of the Money Huns and threw the white 
light of publicity upon their criminal, avaricious and plun¬ 
dering manipulations. The people then learned of the 
secret lobby at each state capitol and in every county 
of every state in the union; it learned of the lobby at 
Washington; it learned how railroad lawyers had writ¬ 
ten opinions that grace our supreme court decisions; 
how railroad money bought public newspapers and or¬ 
ganized commercial clubs and chambers of commerce; 
how railroad slush fund controlled financial agencies; 
how stock jobbing gamblers were permitted to spend 
millions each year at the gambling table called the New 
York Stock Exchange. And the people learned that 
they paid the bill for the whole manipulation in the end 
and supported the vicious gambling joints of the land. 

So it came to pass that they are organizing to take 
over the railroads and coal mines. 

The Non-Partisan League, an organization of farmers, 
was brought into existence in 1916. Its home is in North 
Dakota, one of the largest agricultural states in the 
Union. It declared war on the grain gamblers, the 
milling combine, the “kept press,” the banks, packers 
and terminal syndicates. 

This challenge of the farmers was promptly accepted 
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by the “Big Interests/’ who immediately put into oper¬ 
ation their usual gas, Zeppelin and submarine warfare. 
The “kept press” screamed with “treason,” “anarchy,” 
“socialism” and “bolshivism” to inflame the people 
against the movement and its leaders. Banks, in many 
places became a lair of propaganda committees in the 
pay of the “Big Interests.” The mails were flooded 
with literature and “exposes.” Criminal prosecutions, 
in some cases, framed from the ground up, were insti¬ 
tuted. Loyal citizens were tarred and feathered. 
League members were discredited, harrassed, accused 
and assaulted in almost every conceivable manner. Mil¬ 
lions were spent to break!up the organization and put its 
leaders in jail. 

Withal, in the state election of 1916, the League swept 
everything before it and elected their state ticket and 
now have a representative in Congress. Also, it made 
a splendid showing in a number of western states. In 
1919, by popular vote, the people of North Dakota, ap¬ 
proved the Non-Partisan program in a referendum elec¬ 
tion, against a most bitter and unscrupulous opposition. 

This League, with its thousands of loyal members, is 
joining hands with the Railroad Brotherhood and with 
the American Federation of Labor in a comprehensive, 
constructive plan of reorganization. These constructive 
and productive forces are beginning to understand that 

When had men combine, the good must associate; else 
they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a con¬ 
temptible struggle, or, in the logic of Franklin, “We 
must hang together or assuredly we shall hang sep¬ 
arately” 


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The members of these orders now number millions 
and they have learned from bitter experience that noth¬ 
ing can be accomplished except by organization and 
unity of action along constructive lines. A construction 
program along equitable lines by these organized forces 
is the thing that will prevent a revolution in this coun¬ 
try. In Great Britain a Triple Alliance has already been 
formed. In this body 300,000 transport workers have 
allied themselves for defensive and aggressive purposes 
with 500,000 railroad workers and 800,000 miners. 

These orders, backed by the millions who are demand¬ 
ing truth and justice, have only to fight on, united and 
determined, to save this country from the scourge of 
the power of the Money Huns and bless the world 
with the new doctrine of Americanism. 

AH eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The gen¬ 
eral spread of the light of science has already laid open to every 
view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been 
born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored' few booted and 
spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. 
—Jefferson. 

The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family 
relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, 
and tongues, and kindreds. Nor should this lead to a war upon 
property, or the owners of property. Property Is the fruit of labor; 
property is desirable; is a positive good >in the world,—Lincoln. 


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CHAPTER XI. 


OUR PLEDGE: LET US PLEDGE OURSELVES 
AGAIN AND YET AGAIN. 

By the blessings of those hardy, humble and God¬ 
fearing Pilgrims who founded their homes on the bleak 
and barren shores of New England, there erecting theii 
family altars, building their family firesides, keeping 
sacred the family circle, planting the seed of hope, cour¬ 
age and determination and giving to all mankind a new 
freedom and to destiny a new light. 

By the sacred memory of the immortal fathers who 
brought forth upon this continent a new form of gov¬ 
ernment conceived in liberty and dedicated to the propo¬ 
sition that all men are created equal. 

By the inspiration instilled by the heroism and undy¬ 
ing courage of the dauntless men at Lexington and Con¬ 
cord, Bunker Hill and Saratoga, Valley Forge and 
Yorktown. 

By the lessons taught by the determined and fearless 
victors at New Orleans and on Lake Erie, the dying 
martyrs at the Alamo and the daring and unconquer¬ 
able heroes at Buena Vista and Chapultepec. 

By the eternal obligations fixed by the unmatched 
bravery and intrepid spirit of the gallant men at Gettys¬ 
burg and Missionary Ridge, at Shiloh and in the Wilder¬ 
ness, storming the heights above the clouds at Lookout 

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Mountain, and charging the death-dealing walls of 
Vicksburg. 

By the duty imposed by the glorious achievement of 
the courageous men sailing into the harbor of Manila, 
carrying the unconquered and unconquerable Stars and 
Stripes into Asiatic lands and bearing the message of 
human uplift and the betterment of man. 

By the monument built for humanity when the lives 
of our manhood were lost in the jungles of Cuba that 
the light of liberty and equal opportunity might reach 
an oppressed and enslaved people. 

By the sacred dust of those immortal heroes sleep¬ 
ing their last sleep on fame’s eternal camping ground 
where the Flanders poppies grow. 

By the courage and inspiration given us by those 
hardy and daring pioneers who blazed the trails, trans¬ 
formed the wilds into civilization, changed the mighty 
forests in marts of trade and commerce, made the desert 
bloom with golden grains and luscious fruits to appease 
the appetite and satisfy the hunger of man, beast and 
bird, ever enduring the hardships and privations, ever 
building from the good to the better and from the bet¬ 
ter to the best. 

By the faith, hope and confidence inspired by the 
sacred and guiding light kept blazing by our God-given 
women on the long, long trail called the march of civ¬ 
ilization, ever and ever pouring out their noble and di¬ 
vine influences, ever and ever struggling, suffering and 
sacrificing for the good of humanity and the benefit of 
the race. 

By our duty to our heroes living and our martyrs dead. 

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By the debt we owe to the countless generations strug¬ 
gling on and on through fire and blood to make us pos¬ 
sible. 

By alt these, I repeat, let us pledge ourselves again and 
still again that the pain, suffering and sacrifices of the 
past shall not have (been in vain; that the heroism, honor 
and patriotism of the race shall not die; that humanity, 
Christianity and freedom shall not be crushed from the 
earth by the Money Huns; that free institutions shall not 
be stricken unto death because God has entrusted us with 
a taxing duty; because destiny is giving Americanism the 
blood and fire test. 

Now is America’s great, golden, never-to-return oppor¬ 
tunity. It is our chance to make the anvils of freedom 
ring around the world. Our chance to light our sleeping 
furnaces and send their flames into every mart and port. 
Our destiny is in our own hands. We have mighty prob¬ 
lems to solve. The eyes of the world are upon us. 

Let our watchword be “humanity first,” a greater 
America and a higher and nobler type of Americanism. 
Let the hum of our industries give music that will glad¬ 
den the hearts and make happy the homes of all mankind. 
Let the twentieth century go down in history as the 
“American age.” Let us unite, as Americans, proud of 
our country and loyal to her institutions, in a grand move¬ 
ment of human uplift, and let us begin at home. Let us 
lay aside our partisan politics and strive for progress, 
prosperity and greatness of America and the happiness, 
protection and welfare of her people. Let us break the 
shackles that are corrupting and blighting our manhood 
and debauching and crippling our womanhood and de- 

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mand that tour God-given rights of life, liberty and the 
pursuit of happiness be restored to us. Let us tear down 
the temple of wild, reckless and remorseless greed for 
wealth and power and build a temple for the uplift of man¬ 
kind; a temple whose foundation ishall be “human life 
united in a great harmonious body against its common 
enemies.” A temple whose superstructure shall be equal 
opportunities to all; a temple bound together with golden 
cables of brotherly love and human kindness, filled with 
peace on earth and good will toward man. A temple cov¬ 
ered with the ever-creeping vines of light, progress and 
achievement and dedicated to Liberty, Equality and 
Justice. 

As the curtain goes down on the last act of the mighty 
human drama now being played on the stage of life, let 
us not behold a divided, oppressed and enslaved people 
surrounded by ruin, despair and desolation. 

Let us not behold the broken and shattered fragments 
of the world’s greatest republic. 

Let us not behold humanity crucified on a cross of bru¬ 
tal selfishness. 

Rather let us behold a happy, spirited and God-fearing 
people. A people with souls of purity erect. A people liv¬ 
ing the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the Broth¬ 
erhood of man. A people toiling, spinning and rejoicing, 
as they nestle around their firesides of hope, courage and 
inspiration, living from the good to the better and from 
the better to the best. 

Let us behold a nation mighty as the law of truth, just 
as the law of nature, faithful as the law of time, pro¬ 
gressive as the law of evolution, standing as’ the mighty 
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champion of the rights of man and the guardian of every 
right ambition that beats within the heart of humanity. 

And he said unto me, It Is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the 
beginning and the end. I will give unto/him that is athirst of the 
fountain of the water of life freely. 

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his 
God, and he shall be my son. 

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and mur¬ 
derers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all 
liars, shall have their part fin the lake which burneth with fire and 
brimstone; which Is the second death. 


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